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January, 2009

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I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.

My Country ‘Tis of Thee

Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.

The War Comes Home

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Brooklynite Luis Carlos Montalvan, a veteran of the Iraq War who came with Philip Napoli to see our exhibit In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans.  Mr. Montalvan’s assistance dog Tuesday was a wonderful visitor to the museum!

Here Luis Carlos Montalvan and Aaron Glantz, author of The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans speak with Laura Flanders:

Kent Ave Bike Lane

While not a solution to the Kent Ave Bike Lane Debate, this is a good idea:

Image courtesy of dustbowl.wordpress.com

Image courtesy of dustbowl.wordpress.com

Narrative Medicine

While reading on the train this morning, I saw an ad in The New Yorker for a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University:

enhance your ‘witnessing’ skills
as applied to providing quality healthcare

Doctors and nurses are picking up deep-listening skills from the Columbia Oral Research Office!  What a wonderful thing, and much-needed training for many of the medical professionals I’ve encountered.