Hello Lloyd, interestingly we were engaged to build a pavilion in CLT for Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate her 200th anniversary which was delayed by a year due to COVID. We finally got to build it the following year. It was commissioned by the Burdett Trust and now sits as a permanent garden at St Thomas' hospital at the south end of Westminster Bridge. If you are in London it would be a pleasure to show you around it.
“All Sciences of Observations depend upon Statistical methods—without these, are blind empiricism. Make your facts comparable before deducing causes. In complete, pell-mell observations arranged so as to support theory; insufficient number of observations; this is what one sees.”
To her, medicine was a science as much as a mere practice, and her beliefs and actions forced others to also see it as such.
Great article and so true. I could and will write more . Truth-telling has never been popular and is especially dangerous for girls and women and yet when I look at who are standing up with courage or being carried out of town hall meetings by goons I see many women. I hope you have an opportunity to check out 1 . Rudolf Virchow’s publication on the epidemic in Silesia. He was only 24 when he wrote this decades before Florence did her wonderful work. I highly recommend the books “ Where there is no doctor “. I used that as my guide in 1984 when I worked in a Tibetan monastery in India. I must look for the latest edition. I also recommend a book called “ Mountains over mountains “ written about the life of the incredible Dr. Paul Farmer . I forgot the name of the author. This is another incredible and for me life altering book along with “ The Songlines “ by Bruce Chatwin. “ The Wayfinders “ by Wade Davies and “ Man’s search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl . I would love to see these powerful truth telling books along with other books in the incredible Massey Lecture series . The evidence that reading dystopia rather than “ warning us and scaring “ us away from dystopia does not work is all around us in my opinion but people love dystopia and I see a close parallel between the rise of gothic literature and reading crime novels and horror to relax and our sky high levels of anxiety and depression in young people. The books we make teenagers read are all profoundly dystopic and paint a dismal picture of humanity which is inaccurate. The statistics show only 0.1 % of babies are born capable of becoming serial killers or rapists and even fewer are capable of lying like Hitler and Stalin and yet so many people claimed in 2016 that we should not say Trump was the next Hitler ………. I only once had the pleasure of spending time with an Elder and what impressed on me was how much time the Elders spent with children and the entire tribe spent on conflict resolution. Real conflict resolution which takes immense creativity and time.
I also hope you have an opportunity to check out the extraordinary Carole Caldwaldr. I hope you follow her on Substack and that you have a wonderful trip.
Hello Lloyd, interestingly we were engaged to build a pavilion in CLT for Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate her 200th anniversary which was delayed by a year due to COVID. We finally got to build it the following year. It was commissioned by the Burdett Trust and now sits as a permanent garden at St Thomas' hospital at the south end of Westminster Bridge. If you are in London it would be a pleasure to show you around it.
Jim Johnstone
ConstruktCLT
“All Sciences of Observations depend upon Statistical methods—without these, are blind empiricism. Make your facts comparable before deducing causes. In complete, pell-mell observations arranged so as to support theory; insufficient number of observations; this is what one sees.”
To her, medicine was a science as much as a mere practice, and her beliefs and actions forced others to also see it as such.
Great article and so true. I could and will write more . Truth-telling has never been popular and is especially dangerous for girls and women and yet when I look at who are standing up with courage or being carried out of town hall meetings by goons I see many women. I hope you have an opportunity to check out 1 . Rudolf Virchow’s publication on the epidemic in Silesia. He was only 24 when he wrote this decades before Florence did her wonderful work. I highly recommend the books “ Where there is no doctor “. I used that as my guide in 1984 when I worked in a Tibetan monastery in India. I must look for the latest edition. I also recommend a book called “ Mountains over mountains “ written about the life of the incredible Dr. Paul Farmer . I forgot the name of the author. This is another incredible and for me life altering book along with “ The Songlines “ by Bruce Chatwin. “ The Wayfinders “ by Wade Davies and “ Man’s search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl . I would love to see these powerful truth telling books along with other books in the incredible Massey Lecture series . The evidence that reading dystopia rather than “ warning us and scaring “ us away from dystopia does not work is all around us in my opinion but people love dystopia and I see a close parallel between the rise of gothic literature and reading crime novels and horror to relax and our sky high levels of anxiety and depression in young people. The books we make teenagers read are all profoundly dystopic and paint a dismal picture of humanity which is inaccurate. The statistics show only 0.1 % of babies are born capable of becoming serial killers or rapists and even fewer are capable of lying like Hitler and Stalin and yet so many people claimed in 2016 that we should not say Trump was the next Hitler ………. I only once had the pleasure of spending time with an Elder and what impressed on me was how much time the Elders spent with children and the entire tribe spent on conflict resolution. Real conflict resolution which takes immense creativity and time.
I also hope you have an opportunity to check out the extraordinary Carole Caldwaldr. I hope you follow her on Substack and that you have a wonderful trip.
I do follow her