As I followed the ambulance taking my mother to the emergency room, I saw myself playing a scene from Verghese’s “Cutting for Stone.”
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Dramatic Irony & a Medical Emergency
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Our National Health Requires Immigrants
Monday As we watch the Trump administration trample all over American values with its treatment of asylum seekers at our southern border, it’s worth reminding ourselves how much we rely on immigrants. I’ve been reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, an Ethiopian immigrant of Indian parentage, who at one point has a character expound […]
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Reading Literature, A Spiritual Practice
McEntyre notes that, in the ancient practice of lectio divina, one sought to maintain “spiritual focus and equanimity” by “reading Scripture slowly, listening for the word or phrase that speaks to you, pausing to consider prayerfully the gift being offered in those words for this moment.” Ditto, the author says, for reading literature.
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