Text: GBAPS_appreciation.txt:
- Getting Recognized
- It is unclear to me just why the school district staff felt compelled
- to public recognition. I'm just an old guy with a checkbook. (It's
- like axle grease, I tell people. The grease is important, but it is
- the wheel that does the work.) When my father received a similar
- certificate from the library in 1996 it was because he was too old to
- continue volunteering to bring books to the jail. He was 83 then, so
- I'm hoping for another couple of decades. Maybe they'll have to give
- me a second appreciation.
- Visiting the Circus
- It was back to the past for my half birthday this year as my friend
- Ray offered to drive in return for free admission. Ray wanted to see
- how the museum had changed since his last visit in 1971, only to
- discover that he hadn't been to Circus World in 1971; he had been in
- Milwaukee for the Circus Parade.
- I, of course, have been to Circus World before -- thrice, if memory
- serves. Once in 1967 on a high school bus "camp" around Wisconsin,
- once when I talked a teen driver into driving me to visit a friend
- and the Circus in Baraboo, and once in order to replace a false
- memory of visiting Circus World with my father with a real memory of
- him visiting Circus World with me. I even preached a sermon on the
- circus.
- Out of all 4 visits I have only 2 photos, both from the high school
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- Visiting the Orthopedist
- This morning I finally saw the specialist. I'm not as confident that
- he saw me. Certainly he gazed in my direction and unquestionably he
- manipulated my leg joints. He smiled benignly and examined the X-ray
- image imports. He also discounted the provisional diagnosis from my
- doctor and dismissed my subjective experiences, although in the most
- avunular manner imaginable.
- I've said before that it seems the patient doesn't quite exist for a
- Prevea doctor. Only the data presents to them. There is a person, as
- well, but the person is a customer; the friendly masks are marketing.
- Better to be sold healthcare by a smiling face than a dour one, if
- sales is all you can get. But with health concerns care would be
- better.
- Part of the problem in healthcare is that everyone believes that they
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