Reference Materials

This is likely an unusual spin into the area of our medical system in America. Especially since 1954: the date 1954 is explained in this book.

Lately, I wrote "Health Care Today: Expanded Edition: Active Ingredients vs Placebo Ingredients".

I am not spending time acquiring reviews or buying ads for this book, in part because of extensive caregiving commitments with regard to my 87-year-young mother, now in a nearby village of nine thousand. I myself live in a village of 6,000.

It comes from the vantage point of someone 64, who spent time as a pre-med student at West Point, and later studied solely Mathematics at Berea College, starting at the age of 41.

It also comes from the vantage point of having assisted various persons in their medical struggles and unhappiness struggles in general, including making at least 700 visits to a variety of hospitals and old age facilities.

I personally have spent eighty sessions in physical therapy, for knee and neck injuries from parachute training, in the Army, as part of becoming Airborne qualified. I was an M1 Abrams tank platoon leader in Germany.

Walking in nature, a few years ago, I came across some horse riders on the trail: one rider exclaimed, "How quaint: a walker". A year later, I rode a horse in the area myself, after not having done such for quite a while. The physical therapist I saw, got into this field by having been injured while riding a horse, and a girlfriend of mine, in California, fell off a mule and had fifty ensuing operations, when the mule landed on top of her.

I walked a short span on the Appalachian Trail, a year ago.

I was baptized in a creek in West Virginia, at the age of seven.

I have worked for a short period, as a paid employee for a caregiving company.

I am a certified caregiver.

I have a certification in Herbalism, and have spent time at Navajo Reservation in Arizona, as well as having visited Cherokee Indian Reservation three times, in North Carolina.

I spent twenty years without owning a car and currently do not own a car.

I applied to trucking school at the age of thirty, after returning to Kentucky from California.

I also have spent much time photographing Appalachian America, working closely with Warren Brunner in past years.
Noting that Berea College, where I attended for four years, is a premiere school for studying Appalachia, and is in Appalachian Kentucky.

Also, I am a minister, a Reverend, of what some say is an unconventional sort, both as per acquiring the credential, and as to my having a Buddhist and Native American leaning.

I grew up surrounded by my mother's family, in summers, on a farm, where almost no family member had more than a sixth-grade education. The same applies to my mother.

My paternal grandfather worked as a sanitation engineer - aka garbageman - in the ghettos of Philadelphia.

I spent 150 sessions in psychoanalysis in my twenties, including the latter one hundred sessions in La Jolla, California, with a Jewish analyst, six days a week. He uttered one sentence per session, in classical opaque fashion.

I grew up in the ghettos of Detroit and attended an all-black Kindergarten. In 2007, I visited the studio of Stevie Wonder...

I took a year off, after kindergarten, starting a new approach, in North Carolina. I spent a year in the woods, while other children were in school. I am now a member of Audubon Society and The Sierra Club.

I am most familiar with Blaise Pascal's phrase, "All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone". I have a bird blind in my backyard.

I played classical violin as a youth, studying it with the Suzuki program at MacPhail Center for Music, with a teacher who spent four months with Shinichi Suzuki, in Japan.

I run https://www.landwalks.com and https://healthbirds.org