Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog

April's Foolin'

April 3, 2016

april came with promise:
gay blossoms on the cherry.
These flurries mock us.

Kukuilono 01267

Barren Boughs

dawn patrol reveals
that time of bare ruined choirs
where birds will soon sing

Fire In the Sky

Fire in the sky
Williams' Winter Carnival
Too cold for Zika

(Mahalo to Scott Lewis)

Credit Card and License Number, Woof.

 

If you plan to stay at the Best Western in Las Vegas, New Mexico, be prepared for the kindest desk clerk you are likely to meet.

For more on Las Vegas, NM, see this blog.

Twilight of 12.24.15

After many gray days, majestic fire in the sky. My thoughts turn to Shakespeare's sonnet # 73, a companion of three score years.

In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,

 

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Two Sisters December 7, 2015

Spring!

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period --
                                       Emily Dickinson

Morning. 23.5.15. A walk to and around Clark Art

Two Good Samaritans in the Himalaya

I was suffering from what the famous Himalayan explorer, Tilman termed as ‘mountaineer’s foot’, the inability to put one before the other! The stones and boulders were loose and the moraine walking difficult. The sun had disappeared behind the clouds and the atmosphere looked threatening. Dark clouds were gathering on the highest mountains on Earth. The rumble of avalanches could be heard in the distance. I was on my way back from the Everest Base Camp, walking fast on the Khumbu Glacier trying to reach shelter before the snowstorm broke. A few snowflakes were beginning to fall. The temperature had dropped by around 10 degrees Celsius and the wind was picking up. My body temperature was also beginning to drop...  Download Two Good Samaritans

Ravi Shankar is an occasional contributor to Cell 2 Soul.  He is a medical professor who spent over twelve years teaching in the Himalayan country of Nepal and enjoyed trekking in the wonderful hills. He is at present a faculty at the Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands.  Photos by Dr. Ravi Shankar.  You may contact him at: Shankar PR

40 Years on This Huge Stage

this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Sonnet # 15

First, there was “Boyhood,” filmed over 12 years with the same cast, a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child.

Now, there is “Forty Portraits in Forty Years, photographs by Nicholas Nixon, who chronicles the four Brown sisters annually every year since 1975.

This is an amazing collection.  While “Boyhood” is fiction, “Forty Photographs” is snapshots of reality.  If a picture is worth 1000 words, what volumes are contained in these two score images!

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity. 
                         Andrew Marvell:  To His Coy Mistress.