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Feb 2015
By no means am I trying to pawn this off as an idea of my own. But I haven't run into a literary version of Doctors Without Borders yet (if there is one, please tell me so I can join). Seems like a good concept to me though, probably one that could be put into practice relatively quickly too with a little support. After all, no matter the nature of the substance or what it's origins are, Medicine can't deny that there is more to humanity than just the body, more to health than just the absence of disease. If we can pull together to combat illiteracy and contagions in all corners of the globe, shouldn't self expression come along on the heels of that? We here on this site, mostly, come from the "developed" Western world. But I've also heard rumors and seen a few trails leading off into the non-English speaking corners of the web with the same basic beliefs as our own. I've got no clue if this is a viable idea or not right now, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Please let me know what you think and toss around ideas, maybe float it on facebook or something, let's get a dialogue going hopefully. There are so many voices in this world, so much that could be said, so much that could be written, so much that could enrich all of our lives. It just seems to me that there ought to be something humanity could do to facilitate that sharing.
Jon Shierling
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Jon Shierling  Old Florida
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