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From The duPs Photo Album:

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The valley near Lauterbrunnen
Towards InnerArosa
Amsterdam Historical Museum Courtyard
Father and Mother Christmas, Carouge, Geneva
1980 - Major & Mrs Chisapi, Chaanga
The Piper at Compton Abbas
Our Oscar winners for today
Hever Gardens plantation
Leprosy - Ferne Pike teaching girls to play timbrels
From Hornli Hutte, Arosa
Easy, the dog, needs snowshoes also
The Peace Tower in Centre Block, Ottawa
The water courses down the gorge in the Trummelbach Falls
Across San Francisco - TransAmerica Building in the foreground
1980 - TSA Chaanga Hall, Gwembe Valley
Not far now
Waiting for new life
The Spirit of Haida Gwaii - CMC - on Canada's $20 note
Our driver in Hollywood
Inside the Red Fort, New Delhi
Leprosy and Palliative Care

Involvement with people affected by leprosy was a consequence of work at Chikankata Hospital in the 1970s. The relationship went beyond that of doctor-patient as is seen in The March.

 

In early retirement in the UK Paul returned to clinical medicine as a part-time physician in palliative care, based at Wisdom Hospice, Rochester. This provided opportunity to put into practice the principles of wholistic care, social inclusion and community health first discovered in listening to the experiences of people affected by leprosy in Zambia in the 1970s and which he promoted during ten years as The Salvation Army’s international medical adviser in the 1980s. Somewhere Better blends some of these experiences. Finale conveys the experience of transition into a new role. Goodbye was written when he finally retired from clinical practice.

 

Born out of the involvement with leprosy has come a 30-year relationship with The Leprosy Mission. TLM Logo reflects a tendency to look beyond the obvious and trying to find the fewest number of words to express fresh insight.

# Article Title Date
1 Autumn Goodbye August 2010
2 M. Leprae Lament April 2010
3 People of the Way March 2010
4 Goodbye January 2010
5 The Daughter November 2009
6 Comfort Ye My People August 2009
7 Sandaled Feet June 2009
8 To A London Cab-Driver May 2009
9 Light of the World December 2008
10 Phantom of the Opera September 2008
11 The Waiter July 2008
12 Finale June 2005
13 Victory Celebration July 2004
14 Somewhere Better July 2004
15 Gericault's Raft March 2003
16 TLM Logo November 1999
17 Death of the Living Dead July 1976
18 The March October 1973