++++ Daniel Barenboim ++++ Campaign to make Mozart a part of outpatient therapy at Health South, Pleasant Gap, PA. Suggested donation $18. ++++ Ivo Sillamaa, fortepiano ++++ Surprise: Medical resources have found music is good for your health. It is especially good for the health of […]
Work in progress
This is my last week of occupational therapy
If I were not a [Jewish] Buddhist, this would be my Mad As Hell and I Can’t Take it Anymore moment. ++++ It is 3:04 AM. I am making coffee. Washing the dishes. A shower is overdue. At 8:10 a Cataride para-transit bus will pick me up here in Downtown State College where parking (believe […]
20 Million People in the World are Dying Unnecessarily
Special Report: 20 Million People in the World Are Dying of Starvation Unnecessarily How can we feed them? How can we help them feed themselves? The origin of this posting is Thanksgiving Day 1960 when I was 13 years old. Following Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Borough Park Brooklyn, my grandmother cleared away dinner, […]
In praise of Rep. Frederica Wilson of Miami
++++ The competence and compassion of Rep. Frederica Wilson (D_Florida) came to my attention by chance. I was researching my column for e-architect U.K. on the now late architect Zaha Hadid’s condominium in the heart of downtown Miami. […]
You are invited to celebrate my 70th birthday here in segregated State College, PA
++++ Crawl* with me to celebrate my 70th birthday [Biblical three score years and ten] I celebrated my 69th and 68th birthday in the hospital. For my 70th birthday, I plan to celebrate at Cafe Verve, a vegetarian restaurant at 115 East Beaver Avenue, State College, PA. Each of my daugers […]
The June 1967 article I published in Hebrew from Israel
Prologue. In June of 1967, I arrived in Israel with the intention of fighting in the Six Day War. I had been raised on tales of the 1948 War of Independence when such presumed heroics really did result in volunteers being given a Sten gun immediately after leaving the ship as it docked in Jaffa […]
Charging my surgically embedded battery
After a three-year multi-state pursuit of surgery to control chronic pain, in October 2016 I had a spinal stimulator surgically implanted in my back. The stimulator helps control pain by sending an electric impulse up my spine. The electricity blocks the brain’s ability to receive signals that tell it, “You are in pain.” The stimulator […]
Analysis: Limitations of disability housing design
Figure 1.1. Nadya Ludwig in her customary position watching the front door at Addison Court and greeting all 95 residents by name [1] ++++ Summary The generation born after the Second World War is commonly referred to as “The Baby Boom Generation.” The U.S. Census Bureau provides statistics on Baby Boomers not as helpful as one […]