Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

  Bio: W Roger Carlisle is a 75-year-old, semi-retired physician. He  currently volunteers and works in a free medical clinic for patients  living in poverty. He is on a journey of returning home to better understand himself through poetry. He hopes he is becoming more humble in the process. A Yearly MIssion Trip From America to Nicaragua Our medical mission has arrived in Nicaragua. Driving along in the cool comfort of our bus, we see donkeys carrying firewood, people walking on dusty roads, carrying food and produce to market, dry gullies, dusty plains, skeletal horses, dry river beds, giggling girls walking to church. Giant Pochote, Acetuna, Jocote, Roble, Caesalpinia, Brosimum trees fill the horizon. The only things protecting the people from the heat. The operating rooms are small, equipped with old refurbished equipment from twenty years ago. The clinics have dirt floors, medicine is in short supply. Outside, a line of children with crossed eyes waiting to be fixed,...