Tag: Mother’s Day

"When I Grow Up - I Want to Be Like You" - Doctor & Mum Cut from the Same Cloth!

Cuba: “When I Grow Up – I Want to Be Like You” – Doctor & Mum Cut from the Same Cloth! (5.5.2026)

“There’s a lot of fear,” he admits. “Fear of not being able, of not being on time, losing more days… It scares us. The effectiveness of the treatment is lost.”
But Yohima does not stop at lamenting. His voice tightens, becomes precise.

“Regardless of all the difficult things we go through, like every good Cuban, we have the heartbeat, the knowledge. And emotions don’t need fuel, they don’t need oil to function.”

And then he shows with pride and relief the walls of his office. Equipped with what you need to spend the night. This small and warm space has something that no blockage can frustrate: a children’s gallery. “The children, when they arrived here, did not want to cross the threshold of the door,” he recalls. A colleague had the idea of distracting them with drawings. “They were accumulating and we were sticking the drawings on the wall, some that had no color, we colored them.” The children came back and saw his work, he motivated them and wanted to bring another one. “The idea is that they make this place a place for them, where everything is fine, where everything is safe.”

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Thank You Joseph Stalin - We Love You!

UK: Uncle Joe Says “It’s Mother’s Day in the Country That Invented It!” (15.3.2026)

Either way – Gee has been the mother to of my children – both wonderful girls. I think the rest of the world follows a UN-designated “Mother’s Day” – and for some reason the old UK tradition is ignored by the world – like Morris Dancing and jousting. Gee had the idea of placing an old statue of Joseph Stalin in shot – an icon from the USSR that was sent to use by Comrades who were trying to preserve the evidence of the Workers’ State as the forces of Trotskyism and capitalism was ripping it apart during the late 1980s. Despite Khrushchev’s betrayal of Stalin in 1956 – many in the USSR still respected him and kept these small statues hidden away from prying eyes. It is interesting how the capacity to exercise rational thought raises an individual into a genuine human-being – extracting their minds and bodies from a deluded, inverted, and backward past! And so be it – until there is no more capitalism to overcome!

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