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Eloy Torrez, The Pope of Broadway, Los Angeles, Victor Clothing mural

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-taken August, 2009, Los Angeles, click for larger view of mural (Background on Eloy Torrez from PublicAartinLA.com. )

the circle of healthcare

When I was a kid growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota in the 70s, my mom would take my sisters and me to the local playground sometimes for lunch. There was a program at the playground where kids from my neighborhood would get a free lunch in the summer. The idea was that so many kids showed up for school during the schoolyear not having eaten breakfast, that providing a lunch at the park in the summertime made sense . It was a simple meal. A baloney or salami sandwich, some chips, some carrots or raisins and a drink. We would sit in the field house in a big circle and eat lunch together. One day in particular, I remember two sisters and a brother showing up as we were eating only to be told that the lunches had run out. One of the little girls started to cry. She was hungry. And, while my mom made sure that we all shared our lunches with her and her siblings, that moment burned itself into my memory the way childhood memories sometimes do. I will never forget the taste of the baloney s