drmstream[writing]

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Tag: Virginia

The doubling of humankind

When my great-great-great grand­fa­ther William Can­dlish was born in Vir­ginia in 1804, there were 1 bil­lion peo­ple in the world. It had taken thou­sands of years for the world to reach that mile­stone of human sat­u­ra­tion. When my father was born in the 1930’s, the num­ber of peo­ple in the world had just passed the 2 […]

Learning about what you love

A bit of poetry about life and learn­ing, in sketches, impres­sions, pro­scrip­tions and pho­tos. As you read through, you come to the core of the pas­sion. “Life­draw­ing became an obses­sion for me after the pass­ing away of my wife, Vir­ginia. I embraced her til her last breath at Royal Prince Alfred Hos­pi­tal; and when she […]