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Ruth

1/21/2017

 
“In March of 2016 I went to Haiti with a medical group and was overwhelmed by what I saw in terms of the poverty, the hardship, and the courage of the Haitian people. One moment really sticks out in my mind. We had turned a corner, and there was a pile of trash several feet deep. I noticed first a dog digging in it, and then I noticed the man digging in it. I was just kind of speechless. I didn’t know how --- I couldn’t even think of a way --- to put that into a context I could understand, based on my life. Weeks later, I was home and had gone back to my usual routine. I went to get a manicure and was sitting on my back porch looking at my thumbnail, which had gotten smudged a little bit after the manicure. I was sort of pouting about it, and then I thought, ‘My God. A couple of weeks ago I was seeing a man competing with a dog digging through trash, and here I am back in Memphis in my advantaged life, upset about my thumbnail.’ I was stunned by the contradiction there and the sense that through no fault of his own, that man lives his life --- and through no credit on my part, other than God's grace and good luck, I’m living my life.”
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Ruth Mulvany is retired from her position as Associate Professor of Physical Therapy with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
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