Thought Prints

Carpe Diem #1799 New Beginnings ... a huge wave (Crossroads feature) "Today I have chosen two haiku written by her ( Jane Reichhold)  and I love to challenge you to create a "fusion-ku" and with that "fusion-ku" a Troiku ... (more on Troiku above in the menu). Here are the two haiku by Jane to work with: a huge wave thundering across the beach my birthday sky-clad the new-born comes wrapped in previous lives © Jane Reichhold (extracted from the online Saijiki "A Dictionary Of Haiku", section "New Year")" pain filled wave the future is now crowned as grandma smiles pain filled wave engulfing all who stand near just breathe the future is now crowned in the pink, chubby fist mom's finger as grandma smiles dreaming of future adventures seeing the past in that face © petra domina As I read the challenge and the two haiku I thought of my husband's birth.  He is in his 80th year.  ...

There have been a couple of quotes of late that grabbed my attention.  The first made me ponder how solutions are so intertwined.  Good housing impacts health leading to impacting the national debt.  The second was just the most logical explanation of evolving I have come across in reading. Not something I expected to find in the summer 2016 edition of Wildflower , a magazine from the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center here in Austin. The first was a statistic published in the May, 2016, habitat, The Magazine for Habitat for Humanity International . There is a "12% decline in total Medicaid expenditures after people moved into affordable housing."   Research was conducted by Enterprise Community Partners and the Center for Outcomes Research and Education. The research represents one of the first studies to directly assess the impact on health care costs in the U.S. as related to low income individuals living in affordable housing. The second quote was disco...