1 Etznab
White Magnetic
Mirror
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Second largest in the World
She ebbs and flows with Tides eternal
Reaching out with Waves unfurled
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Atlantic she is called in our own
Tongue
Yet she does sing in Tongues
unnumbered
Songs for every Land and Old and
Young
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Laughing with the dancing Stars of
Night
She captures all celestial Beams and
Planets
Within her endless matrices of Light
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Kissing all the Shells upon the Shore
She stretches salty Arms around her
Islands
As if to say she could not love them
more
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Between two Continents does she drift
Protecting all that lives beneath her
Surface
Bearing to her Ports each noble Ship
There is a Ocean by the Highlands
She is the Stuff of Life and Lore
She beckons all with Swells unceasing
As Poseidon for his Aphrodite roars.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Josephine English, MD
Josephine English was an American gynecologist who was the first black woman to open a private practice in New York. She was also known for her work in real estate and health care, in addition to her philanthropy in the arts. Her practice was jeopardized in 1995 due to financial issues with the Adelphi Medical Center. Many of her establishments have risked foreclosure, and lacked repair funds.
Biography
English was born on December 17, 1920 to Jennie English and Whittie Sr. in Ontario, Virginia. She moved to Englewood, New Jersey in 1939. Her family was one of the first black families in Englewood. She attended Hunter College for her Bachelor's Degree until 1949, and earned her Master's in Psychology at New York University. She initially wanted to become a psychiatrist, but ended up choosing gynecology after discovering her interest at Meharry Medical College where she earned her medical degree in gynecology.
Medical experience
English opened her practice at Harlem Hospital. Once in Brooklyn, she opened up a women's health clinic in Bushwick in 1956, as well as another in Fort Greene two decades later. During her career, English helped deliver 6,000 babies, including the children of Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz, and Lynn Nottage. In 1986, English received her license from the New York State Department of Health to establish her surgical center. She was the first minority and woman to be awarded this honor.
Philanthropy
English's interest in health care led her to establish the Adelphi Medical Center and child care programs, such as Up the Ladder Day Care and After School Program. Her passion for theater inspired her to establish the Paul Robeson Theater from a dilapidated church. She helped actors create performances to educate the populace on health and nutrition.
Death
English died on December 18, 2011 at 91 years old at the Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center where she was recovering from surgery.
Legacy
English won the African Community Contribution Award as well as the Lucille Mason Rose Community Activist Award. In 1996, the Josephine English Foundation was created to fund English's pursuits.*
ETZNAB
Kin 118: White Magnetic Mirror
I unify in order to reflect
Attracting order
I seal the matrix of endlessness
With the magnetic tone of purpose
I am guided by my own power doubled.
Our life and everything we see in the phenomenal world are the articulation of specific cycles of time.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Manipura Chakra (Limi Plasma)
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