6 Ik
White Rhythmic Wind
Poetess
I call myself
Lines I rhyme
Fine
Phrases do I form –
My
Thoughts evolve
In
parcèd Time
As
Rhythms sweet are born –
If
I dare
Disclose to you
A rare or radiant Verse –
You see the Light
In darkest Night –
The lifting of a Curse.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Grace Marilynn James, MD with young patient.
Grace Marilyn James (1923–1989) was an American pediatrician in Louisville, Kentucky. When she began practicing medicine in 1953, the hospitals in Louisville were racially segregated by law. At the University of Louisville School of Medicine she was the first African American physician on the faculty. She was also one of the first two African American women on the faculty at any southern medical school. Additionally, she was first African American woman to serve as an attending physician at Louisville's Kosair Children's Hospital.
Early life and education
Grace Marilyn James was born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1923 to Edward L. James, the owner of a produce company, and Stella Grace Shaw James, the manager of the local post office. James attended West Virginia State College. She completed post-graduate work at West Virginia State College and the University of Chicago. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee with an M.D. degree in 1950. James relocated to New York City and completed a pediatric residency at Harlem Hospital. Additionally, she studied child psychiatry at Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens Village,becoming a fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Pediatric career
James relocated to Louisville in 1953 to open a private pediatrics practice and a walk-in clinic for children living in Louisville's impoverished "West End". She worked for the Louisville city and Jefferson County Health Department, and was a pediatrician for the West End Day Care Center. James joined the University of Louisville School of Medicine as an instructor in child health. Over time she joined the staff of eight Louisville-area hospitals. She was the first African American woman on the staff of Louisville Children's Hospital and one of only two black women on the faculty of a medical school located in the southern area of United States. James was the first African American woman to be granted membership in the Jefferson County Medical Society.
Death and legacy
James was honored as a Kentucky Women Remembered with her portrait was added to an exhibit in the Kentucky State Capital Rotunda.*
IK
Kin 162: White Rhythmic Wind
I organize in order to communicate
Balancing breath
I seal the input of spirit
With the rhythmic tone of equality
I am guided by my own power doubled.
A crystal requires no maintenance to sustain its perfect form, whereas all life forms require maintenance which at minimum, includes water, light and air.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Sahasrara Chakra (Dali Plasma)
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