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it's ~0715 and having slept the day prior @ 0200 after my eyes kept on shutting while read'g "into thin air", I'm wired. Not sure why, but I feel it's the urgency to get things done and start addressing the needs of the poor in developing countries. I'm quite driven by that but also stunted by the lack of development on start up projects to generate stable income for these places.



It's great to live right by the hospital cause you get to hear the sirens blaring at all times of the… Continue

So it's been the last couple days that my mind has been firing ideas off the wall. I wake up early tormented by the fact that I need to do something. To collect more information on rural living in order to better the healthcare management of rural places. I'm finding that I'm burning through books at an incredible pace and obsessing over courses in Wilderness First Aid, and rural survival skills in extreme conditions (eg. mountaineering, dogsledd'g, snowshoeing, etc.)



It's a blessing… Continue

So my latest reading has been 3 cups of tea a book of Greg Mortensen's travels to K2 and humanitarian efforts in war/weather torn Pakistan/Afghanistan. Truly inspired because he articulates many of the thoughts I've failed to put into words post Nepal. I have to do something, but I'm not sure what. I definitely recommend this book - this is coming from someone who never reads (went through high school reading 2 books))



So I've turned to… Continue