The Sacred Tzolk'in of the Maya: Blue Magnetic Monkey - Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 19

Monday, June 18, 2018

Blue Magnetic Monkey - Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 19

1 Chuen

Blue Magnetic Monkey

Thy laughter is the rush of Angel wings

Thy smile is the sun on the horizon

One call from Thee and my heart fairly sings

I pray the songs and words will ne’er be done

I see in Thee a diamond Star of Night

Lending all its luster to a black Sky

Forever brought from darkness into Light

By Faith so perfect in its alibi

I know and trust that you do love me well

For never did a kiss reveal as much

In its magnetic pull and tidal swell

To realms of Peace I flew with one fine touch.

May heaven bless this union wondrous fair

That none could ever separate this pair.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Wrenda Gallien

Wrenda Gallien (born 1951) is an African American pioneer in the field of Psychiatry.

Education

Gallien graduated from Loma Linda University with a BS in Biology in 1974. In 1983 she graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences with a Doctor of Medicine degree. She proceeded to do a categorical internship in Psychiatry, a residency in General Psychiatry, and a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1988.

Early career

After completing her fellowship, Gallien was the first African American Assistant Medical Director at the Centers for Youth and Families in Little Rock, Arkansas. Gallien was the assistant professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the first minority to teach in the Department of Psychiatry. At Pinewood Hospital in Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1991, Gallien was the first black Medical Director and the first black Director of Youth Services. While in Texarkana she also distinguished herself as the first black psychiatrist to operate a private practice in the city. That same year Gallien became the first black Medical Director of Charter Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the first black Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to operate a private practice in the state of Arkansas.

Gallien's early career was distinguished by breakthrough treatments in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and focused on innovative and effective methods to decrease school violence. In 1985, Gallien began lecturing and consulting in cultural competency in the health care setting.

Late career

In 1999, Gallien started a private practice in Jefferson, Indiana, the first African American to do so in the city, and also the first to operate a private practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Jefferson, Indiana. In Louisville, Kentucky, in 2001, Gallien opened another private practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, called the Alternative Health Therapy and Wellness Center, becoming the first African American in the state of Kentucky to operate a private practice in Child Psychiatry.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrenda_Gallien