Stars of the Season | A SOS Call In The Name of Children

| Photography of the lobby of the Cardon Children’s Medical Center |

STARS OF THE SEASON | When the “model-slash-entrepreneur-slash-friend” Micheline Etkin invited me to join the Cardon Children’s Medical Center Stars of the Season Advisory Council, under the umbrella of Banner Health Foundation, although flattered, I didn’t accept right away. This group raises funds for several projects whose aim is to improve children’s health. One should not take such a responsible role lightly. So I started to wonder how I could contribute to “the cause”, and how an Architect could contribute besides design. Well, first believing in the project. You can not go too far if your heart is not in it. And talking about heart, that is exactly what this year’s project is about: To raise funds to sponsor a program that will provide care for children born with congenital heart defects or who develop heart conditions early in life. Not your problem? Never was? The answer will always be: It is OUR problem.
As Donne wisely said a while back ago (1624):

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

So this Architect here will contribute, somehow, somewhere, with something. Because my heart is in it, and the bells toll for children.


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