While aspects of the world experience COVID-19 illness and death, the croaks of a thousand newly-hatched tree frogs eager for the life that awaits them and the honks of a gaggle of geese glad for the return to the comfort of their summer environs, remind me that also around the globe new life emerges and there will be a grateful return to the comfort of familiar life.
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
Day after day Mother Teresa personally encountered an unyielding number of poor, sick and unwanted. Yet, she relentlessly extended bodily and figurative touch through her deep well of compassionate love, returning to God when needing to replenish her cache of goodness. At this time of global illness and isolation, let us heed her call to see and touch the lonely, suffering and unwanted all around us, by whatever means we are able.
Let us take strength from the quarantined Napolitani who sing “Don’t give up!” from their balconies with true Italian spirit and courage – coraggio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRiINXik00
Inaugural
Opioid and Pain Conference focused on engaging the community with innovative strategies
to manage pain and collaborative initiatives to combat the opioid crisis. I am
grateful to facilitate two panels important to me: 1) State of-the-art approaches
to managing pain without narcotics, and 2) Recovery-oriented criminal justice
efforts which can foster not just an absence of criminal behavior but help to
restore a human being to a fully functional life. Tomorrow at Michigan State
University.
Shout-out to Schuler Books in Okemos for small/local business Saturday!
Schuler Books has been a supporter of Coraggio books since their releases.
Schuler Books promotes Coraggio books’ spiral-binding that helps people with disabilities more easily read a book–by shelving on an end cap or cover forward–while other bookstores prefer books with a title on the binding that can be compactly shelved. Missed Small Business Saturday? Consider shopping for one of many unique items at Schuler Books & Music any time this month.
Lisa Gigliotti is an attorney who has lived for more than twenty-five years with severe rheumatoid arthritis and serious myasthenia gravis. Through those years’ thirteen major surgeries and use of a wheelchair Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.