Would you help a child to walk who has never been able to walk without a crutch, a young girl with Cerebral Palsy to smile for the first time, or if you could help a woman in pain to sleep for the first time in over two weeks, would you? Miracles happen all the [...]
When I started my personal journey into Chiropractic and the health care field it was met with many questions. Commonly there was ‘How on earth did you decide on Chiropractic?’. ‘You are a Nuclear Engineer and you want to be a back cracker now?’ was a routine one from my Mom. [...]
Charles Darwin was an English scientist from the mid-late 1800s who demonstrated that as time passes, life evolves. As species evolve we are left with the diversity of animals and plants that exist as we know it today and we can see this when we go to the zoo or walk through the woods. [...]
When we talk about breaking the cycle of poverty we have to look at breaking it for the long term. Showing up for one month at a time every now and then would be like handing a village a toothbrush and a bottle of toothpaste and saying ‘enjoy a lifetime of minty fresh [...]
When we look at the people we are serving, it is important to understand the characteristics of Poverty. The folks at Enterprise Development International do a great job on defining poverty here where they define 6 keys: 1)Material Poverty 2) Physical Weakness 3) Isolation 4) Vulnerability 5) Powerlessness 6) Spiritual Poverty.
We probably each have [...]
What can I say? I am impressed, I confess myself impressed. With each successive time the team members of Journey to Solidarity discuss the vision and the progress of J2S I am amazed at their creativity, intelligence and generosity.
I am thoroughly excited to be a part of this wonderful team. Much progress has been [...]
In less than two weeks from now on October 24th at 1:00, Palmer College will be holding graduation for Class ‘083′. Among this class are two people of note. One is Jay Breitlow the Director of J2S and the other is John Cherry, a board member of J2S. This is the final [...]
This post is courtesy of Nick, our newly appointed Vice President of J2S! Congratulations Nick! More on the results of our recent meeting to follow, but for now here are Nick’s thoughts on solidifying the future and the vision.
‘To enable the development of a mission statement I first asked who the customers of [...]
To quote Dave Barry “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings”
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So when I lived in Virginia as a Nuclear Engineer I would have [...]
People often ask me, because they know I am graduating what my plans are for post-Palmer.
One of the most common responses, like 90% of the time, when I tell people ‘I’m moving to Madagascar’ is… Jay, WHY Madagascar? I sometimes give a joke about ‘Well I hear it’s where a zebra that sounds like [...]
