Joel Solkoff

High-tech housing for the poor, disabled and elderly

Disability and Elderly Issues

This song was playing when I landed in Israel on the fourth day of the 1967 Six Day War

by

You Tube notes: “Jerusalem of Gold” (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב‎, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is a popular Israeli song written by Naomi Shemer in 1967. The original song described the Jewish people’s 2000-year longing to return to Jerusalem. “Shemer added a final verse after the Six-Day War to celebrate Jerusalem’s unification under Israeli control. At that […]

HealthSouth is the largest rehabilitation hospital in the U.S.

by

“We are the nation’s largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in terms of patients treated and discharged, revenues, and number of hospitals.” ++++ Eerily relevant. Stay tuned for how it is relevant.   “We provide specialized rehabilitative treatment on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. We operate hospitals in 30 states and Puerto […]

Randall Jarrell’s Letters

by

https://archive.org/stream/randalljarrellsl00jarr_0#page/n0/mode/1up ++++ Wikipedia Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children’s author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Jarrell ++++ Poem 90 North BY RANDALL JARRELL At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear […]

Laura, the Woman Who Helped Me Survive Cancer When I was 28

by

YEARS LATER, Laura said, “Are you ever going to get me out of your system?” It was a rhetorical question, the kind one asks when too many events have passed to make an answer possible. In this case, however, the answer is that I will never get her out of my system. I will always […]