Another old new person

[Guest guest]

Hi

 

I just rejoined the list after being off most lists for a couple of

years.

 

I've retired from corporate training and organizational design work

(finally), am in my residency as a midwife (I'm in El Paso right now

at a clinic), and am working just about full-time for a non-profit

that teaches women how to be midwives. We have two programs - one, a

distance program for the academic parts targeting women who can't get

to an onsite program for this; two, we take small groups of volunteers

to the booniest boondocks in Sierra Leone and teach a simplified

version of the program to local traditional birth attendants. This

keeps me pretty dang busy.

 

Home is San Francisco with the beloved partner and four dogs. We have

five kids and eight grandkids between us, which is cool.

 

I'm working with the local healers in Sierra Leone, trying to learn

more about their plant medicine. I've shared with them some essential

oils, which they regard with some awe. They see how the catnip helps

protect me from the mosquitos while it gives me a headache. I blend

it with other stuff, which helps a lot, and the healers are very

impressed. They're also impressed with lavender and fennel.

Apparently nothing around there smells like that. They nod and murmur

over pennyroyal, geranium and some others. If I understood the

language (Mende), it would help. I have to speak Spanish when I am

here at this clinic, and Mende and Krio when I am in Sierra Leone.

Which means, I can't speak any language, including English - the

German and Korean get in the way.

 

I'm rambling - I'm tired. Two babies today, with long labors. To Life!

 

Trish

 

 

Patricia Ross

Secretary, Board of Directors

Midwives on Missions of Service

www.globalmidwives.org

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Trish!! Nice to see you back. I came across the nice thank you and

update you sent out to donors a while back, while trying to coordinate and

organize stuff around here . . . it made me smile and renewed my faith in

our better nature. Glad to see you are still doing this good work.

 

 

Be well,

Marcia Elston

Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence, est. 1988

<http://www.wingedseed.com/> http://www.wingedseed.com Online 3/95

<http://www.aromaconnection.org/> http://www.aromaconnection.org Group Blog

2/07

" Only after the last tree has been cut; only after the last river has been

poisoned; only after the

last fish has been caught; only then will you find that money cannot be

eaten. " Cree Prophecy

 

 

 

_____

 

ATFE2 [ATFE2 ] On Behalf Of

Patricia Ross

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:30 PM

ATFE2

[ATFE2] Another old new person

 

 

 

Hi

 

I just rejoined the list after being off most lists for a couple of

years.

 

I've retired from corporate training and organizational design work

(finally), am in my residency as a midwife (I'm in El Paso right now

at a clinic), and am working just about full-time for a non-profit

that teaches women how to be midwives. We have two programs - one, a

distance program for the academic parts targeting women who can't get

to an onsite program for this; two, we take small groups of volunteers

to the booniest boondocks in Sierra Leone and teach a simplified

version of the program to local traditional birth attendants. This

keeps me pretty dang busy.

 

Home is San Francisco with the beloved partner and four dogs. We have

five kids and eight grandkids between us, which is cool.

 

I'm working with the local healers in Sierra Leone, trying to learn

more about their plant medicine. I've shared with them some essential

oils, which they regard with some awe. They see how the catnip helps

protect me from the mosquitos while it gives me a headache. I blend

it with other stuff, which helps a lot, and the healers are very

impressed. They're also impressed with lavender and fennel.

Apparently nothing around there smells like that. They nod and murmur

over pennyroyal, geranium and some others. If I understood the

language (Mende), it would help. I have to speak Spanish when I am

here at this clinic, and Mende and Krio when I am in Sierra Leone.

Which means, I can't speak any language, including English - the

German and Korean get in the way.

 

I'm rambling - I'm tired. Two babies today, with long labors. To Life!

 

Trish

 

Patricia Ross

Secretary, Board of Directors

Midwives on Missions of Service

www.globalmidwives.org