what a hiker does

“Whenever I am faced with difficulties, even grave ones, I do what a hiker does in finding his trail blocked. If I can’t shove the obstacle out of the way, I either go over it or around it.” (BM 7:271)

another quote of St. Francis of Sales

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew."

quote of St Francis de Sales

One of the things that keep us at a distance from perfection is, without a doubt, our TONGUE. For when one has gone so far as to commit no faults in speaking, the Holy Spirit Himself assures us that he is perfect. And since the worst way of speaking is to speak too much, speak little and well, little and gently, little and simply, little and charitably, little and amiably.

Medicine in paintings

Jose Perez- The public health doctor

Thomas Eakins- Dr Hayes Agnew

Medicine in Paintings

Robert C. Hinckley- The first operation under ether

Edvard Munch- The sick child

Robert Thorn- Semmelweis- defender of motherhood

Van Gogh- Skull of a skeleton with burning cigaret

Rembrandt- The anatomy lesson of doctor Nicolaes Tulp

Medicine in Paintings

Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman- Andreas and Vesalius

Mural paintings- Galen and Hippocrates

Weiss- Dissection picture

Peter Paul Rubens- Hygeia- Goddes of health



Antoine de Favray- Asclepius, the god of healing and medicine, seated half- length at a table, reading a book

Oliver Twist

Men who look on nature, and their fellow men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
Charles Dickins- Oliver Twist

Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues

1.Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation

2.Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversations

3.Order: Let all the things have their places; let each part of your business have its time

4.Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve

5.Frugality: May no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing

6.Industry: Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions

7.Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; speak accordingly

8.Justice: Wrong none by doing injustice or omitting the benefits that are your duty

9.Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think you deserve

10.Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes or habitation

11.Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles or accidents common or unavoidable

12.Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring; never to dullness, weakness or the injury or your own or another's peace or reputation

13.Humility: Imitate Jesus or Socrate

summer tales

An eulogy to work

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action and inaction, work and rest.

Work provides us with an inner creative joy. It saves us from the dullness and boredom of life. It puts our energies to a proper use. Unused energies create disorders in us. They make us physically unhealthy and mentally unhappy.

Time hangs heavy on our shoulders when there is no work. It provides us with money for our life hood. It makes our life meaningful andpeaceful. Idleness is more tiresome and painful than work. Even the most unpaid, unimportant and unpleasant work is better than no work.

For a really useful and happy work, two things are necessary. They are skill and constructiveness. Constructive work is rather unpleasant in the beginning, but very pleasant at the end. For deriving maximum pleasure from life, we must consider life as a whole, a unity and a system. Good Work pays and evil work destroys at the end. Every man who learns some useful skill enjoys it till he improves himself completely. The element of constructiveness is an important source of happiness. When a worker builds up something new, he feels encouraged and elevated and thus gets pleasure from his creative work.


Where there is no need, there would be no work. Where there is no work, there would be no joy in life.

Sajid Majeed

Don Bosco, friend of the youth...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bosco

Sing: nothing from what is pure, suave and sweet didn't die...

lights

Rag- by tudor arghezi

Did you happen to see Rag,
China eyes under that shag?
He’s a dog with ragged fur
Very handsome, as it were.
Looks like he is patched together
Ragged tatter over tatter.
Shreds of fur over his eyes
Put his nose into disguise.
He’s all tangled as a fool
Like he’s freshly spun from wool.
But amazingly, this slobber
Is a cunning, practiced robber.
Loiters by the chicken coop
With his scruffy furry droop,
Waiting calmly for a hen
To lay eggs for him again,
Clucking happily as she
Makes a fresh egg instantly.
Since he’s been in this household
He has learnt a lot, I’m told,
And he crawls, at steady pace,
Slinks towards that hidden place,
Paw and muzzle through the hole,
And he swallows the egg whole!

“Where’s the egg?” Asked then the lady,
Of the house, “It’s gone—he ate it!”
“Wait a minute, I’ll unlearn you,
Of this rotten habit, too!
I will teach you not to steal.”—
So a hot egg was his meal.
But as soon as Rag chowed down,
He dropped it quickly with a frown
And swore with a big bow-wow.

When he looks now at the hen—
Next door neighbor, in her pen—
Mutters Rag begrudgingly:
“Damn! She’s trickier than me!”

Who has seen the wind?

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

By Christina Rossetti

Ecclesiastes 3

There Is a Time for Everything

1 There is a time for everything.
There's a time for everything that is done on earth.

2 There is a time to be born.
And there's a time to die.
There is a time to plant.
And there's a time to pull up what is planted.

3 There is a time to kill.
And there's a time to heal.
There is a time to tear down.
And there's a time to build up.

4 There is a time to cry.
And there's a time to laugh.
There is a time to be sad.
And there's a time to dance.

5 There is a time to scatter stones.
And there's a time to gather them.
There is a time to hug.
And there's a time not to hug.

6 There is a time to search.
And there's a time to stop searching.
There is a time to keep.
And there's a time to throw away.

7 There is a time to tear.
And there's a time to mend.
There is a time to be silent.
And there's a time to speak.

8 There is a time to love.
And there's a time to hate.
There is a time for war.
And there's a time for peace.

Look! The winter's over...Let's enjoy the beautiful spring!

Winter Charm

winter sunlights

Placed upon the backdrop

of a teal grey sky,

crystalized trees

stand placid.

Brittle and petrified,

they cast

long leaden shadows

across tawny

washed snow.

Beautiful and ablaze,

they glimmer

in the afterglow

of a winter sunset.

Nancy Russell

the shadow of the world is over my heart...(1)