Inspiring wonderful places to grow up and grow old by fostering care communities and care economies for & by neighbors.
My connection with my former neighbor deepened in the parking garage: With one load of groceries by the elevator, she was trudging from her car with load #2 with baby on hip and phone to ear. Not wanting to interrupt her conversation, I mouthed, “I got it,” while relieving her of a bag carrying a…Continue reading Starting a personal village in five simple steps
Walter refused what would have been his 9th hospital admission that year. “You run a great hospital, Doc,” he said to Bruce Leff, “but it’s a lousy hotel.” It was the ‘80s and Leff, a Johns Hopkins geriatrician who was then a resident, responded by working with his mentors to assemble everything that Walter would…Continue reading Making a normal day ideal for someone
In grad school, I did a seminar on a paper proposing a novel kind of gene therapy. A doctor in the audience all but said that I was wasting my breath because the technology to deliver the treatment didn’t exist. I got confused: the whole point was that the idea was novel. Still, I didn’t…Continue reading Defer to imagination, not conditions