it is what it is.

it is what it is, and i am where i am. in goddamn turbulence. on my way to DC, then from there, to Addis Ababa, the buzzing capital of Ethiopia. it is the first official enunciation of two years of preparations, two years of promises that we will support Addis Ababa University's attempt to start a training program in emergency medicine, ethiopia's first, at its largest public hospital. we will do our best to teach young doctors principles of caring for the urgently ill, and with that, not only improve the care of addis' sickest, but also create a community of impassioned advocates who can continue to spread such attention throught the country, and the continent. as to now, there are no similar training programs, but by distributing knowledge, you free it to find its best use, its truest purchase. in capable hands, it can form some new machinery of emancipation. from sickness, from poverty, towards strength and, perhaps, freedom. and best of all, once loosed, it will have a life of its own.