04-MAY-B-1

RETURN FROM AMAZON, SORTING PHOTOS, AND TRAVEL TO MICHIGAN FOR FAMILY VISIT AND RIVER BANK RUN

  1. Index to MAY-B-series on Michigan, Derwood, Norfolk, Eastern Shore visits
  2. The new May-B-series starts inauspiciously by a flight cancellation and a choice of airports to sit in overnight:  I leave for Michigan for family visit and the River Bank Run, before the next series of road trips to Derwood, Norfolk, and Eastern Shore Maryland: an efficient process of fishing, running—inspiring another runner as a first timer through a downpour—and a quick, smooth drive down with Shirl, Milly and Doug to Derwood for the grand opening.
  3. The intensive visit to the new Derwood by my sisters Shirley, Milly and Doug and the completion of much of the resettlement details as I get ready to move back in to ‘Derwood redux;” visits at Lakes Needwood and Frank, and Bennigans’ with the Aukward family for a combined Mother’s Day lunch, and a dinner at Clydes’ followed by a tour of the new DC Mall monuments.
  4. Operation Smile visit hosted by Bill and Cathy Magee, and attendance at the PTP-2004 of the various countries represented at Operation Smile’s regional programs, while escorted on the run by the new soon-to-be-announced GWU freshman medical student Anthony Cappollino.
  5. Eastern Shore Maryland, up across the Bay Bridge Tunnel and the arrival in time for the trophy collection and turkey hunting of Maryland spring season 2004: collection of trophies in Parker’s Taxidermy, and delivery of the new ones to Gina Tyler’s in Crisfield, with a dawn sighting of a splendid pair of turkey gobblers in full strut, and afternoon celebrations at Turner’s Sculptures, Gatsby’s Antiques, and SCI Chesapeake Chapter and a Salisbury birthday party.
  6. Return to DC for participation in GWUMC Commencement ceremonies at the occasion of the hooding of my medical students, each experienced veterans of the international medical missions with me one, two or three times over; a wonderful celebration with friends and families and reunions with the Magees.
  7. Following the “lovefest” of students and their parents from GWUMC commencement, comes good news from Kevin and his Humanism in Medicine Award donated, and Anthony Cappollino from Op Smile and his at-last GWUMC acceptance phone call, and the devastating news of Sammy Gorman and Jigmet, as Mark Naylor settles in at Derwood and I work on details of repairs third time each of water heater and A-4 O2 sensor.
  8. Moving in at last, with a summer housemate already in place, as the voice of the cicada is heard in the woods, and I launch into a new doctoral degree program even before the unpacking is half started in re-settling Derwood .
  9. Responses from my graduated medical students, now colleagues, in generous appreciation.
  10. A very rapid series of breaking events has me making plans for a July hosting of a visit by the San Antonio Geelhoeds followed by a medical mission with students and MAP packs to the Dominican Republic and to Haiti by overland connection to Cange.
  11. An Eastern Shore trip to attend a Somerset County gun auction, a turkey hunt at dawn with Bill Webster, a taxidermy trip to Marion Maryland, a return through Trappe, and an inaugural visit by Craig and Carol Schaefer to Derwood to tour the new household, settle in at the Guest Room, hear the Cicada chorus and spot the pair of pileated woodpeckers, visit the pre-dedication WW II Memorial and enjoy the early summer in the Derwood woods—the first mowing of the wild growth in a year of redevelopment.
  12. My opening round on the Cohort 16 Listserve with an invitation to the list of my coming doctoral graduate students.

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