Category: Travel
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Art and healing pilgrimage to France: the art of re-imagining
Lynda Slimmer Above: Rodin’s Thinker, Rodin Museum, Paris. Left: Group in front of Rodin’s Burghers of Calais, Rodin Museum, Paris. I am not an especially creative person. I am a doer; I get things done. I help others channel their creativity into realistic outcomes. However, I am that individual that theologian and ethicist, Richard Niebuhr describes…
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A pilgrim’s poems from the heart
Joan Callahan I am a daughter, sister, wife, mother, school nurse, colleague, friend and neighbor. My vocation is healing in all dimensions of my life. I care for spirit as well as bodies, knowing that spirit guides and informs how we care for ourselves. Spirit is what guides my path, which is why my…
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The Waiting Room
Jessie Seiler Israel Health clinic in Senegal Before beginning my medical education, I spent two years as a health education Peace Corps Volunteer in a small village in the middle of Senegal, in West Africa. When I used to visit Ndiago’s health post, a miracle staffed by able and educated men and women, I…
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Stendhal syndrome, a hazard of tourism
Michelangelo’s tomb Basilica of Santa Croce Florence, Italy Travel may well broaden the mind, but it may also affect it in some strange ways; and tourists have developed a variety of symptoms when overwhelmed by the place they had always dreamed to visit. Some merely became dizzy, had palpitations, or broke into a profuse sweat.…
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La Maison: a palliative care center in France
Eric Breitbart New York City, New York, United States Dining room By Eric Breitbart Gardanne, the last stop on the local train from Marseilles to Aix-en-Provence, was once a thriving mining center. Today, with only one hotel, a few restaurants, and no monuments worth mentioning, the town has little to entice the crowds of…
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John Moore M.D.: Physician, travel writer, and social commentator
Einar Perman Stockholm, Sweden Many years ago I read a book entitled A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany. It was published anonymously “by a gentleman” and printed in London in 1779. The title promised impressions from major European countries during a turbulent period. I was not disappointed. It was a…
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Doctor Moore in Italy
Einar Perman Stockholm, Sweden In a recent issue of Hektoen International, I wrote about Doctor John Moore’s travels in Europe.1 Moore, a practicing physician in Glasgow with a good reputation, was offered an opportunity to travel. Like other prominent noblemen of his day, the young Duke of Hamilton was to make the Grand Tour…