Erschienen in:
01.01.2012 | Healing Arts: Materia Medica
From the Shade into the Sun: In Search of a Mentor
verfasst von:
Rachel Hammer, BS (Biochemistry)
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2012
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Excerpt
“How do you know which ones to select, Mizz Hammer?” my student David asked me, the teacher of his New Orleans high school plant lab. I stopped thinning the forest of sprouts stretching like green arms up from the soil. Hmm. I hadn’t given my selection process much thought. Sheer impulse is what it was. I plucked, absently humming “Killing Me Softly,” and wove through the lab benches, which in addition to plants, teemed with student papers I would later pluck, sort and spruce with feedback. Not all of the plants would have room to grow deeper roots, I explained. Sometimes, there aren’t enough resources to feed all the baby chicks in the nest, so you pick a few of the strongest and work with them. Nature can seem cruel and very random, can’t it? …