In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
The Hereios are in a funk. You will find them in exile today at the Metaphysical leper colony, the Flickr home to “castaways, cast outs, social rejects, pissed-off individuals, perverted hermits” and the self-exiled.
Over at 7 Days of Shooting the weekly theme is “A Book Title”.
All that, and the fact that it’s “Black and White Wednesday, sent me off in search of a book title about leper colonies. I know that’s all very strange – but it’s just how my mind works.
Anyway, I found a book title, and it is so utterly intriguing I put a hold on it at the library and will probably lay my hands on it this weekend. It sounds like fiction, but it’s a true story about a real place. Here’s a good recording about the place:
www.thestory.org/stories/2013-08/legacy-home-leprosy-pati...
Here’s a bit of the review from Goodreads:
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
by Neil W. White III
White . . . had it all . . . The problem was he didn't have the money to pay for it. So he began kiting checks [and] found himself sentenced to a year and a half in prison. Justice, it turned out, would be more than skin deep. White was assigned to Carville, a prison that doubled as a leper colony. Everything about Carville was tailor-made to make White rethink his priorities. He didn't change overnight, but as White turned his incarceration into a crusade to end the stigma of leprosy, he learned lessons in humility, generosity, and the simple transcendent beauty of the human spirit. His story is well worth reading.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217732-in-the-sanctuary-of-o...
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
The Hereios are in a funk. You will find them in exile today at the Metaphysical leper colony, the Flickr home to “castaways, cast outs, social rejects, pissed-off individuals, perverted hermits” and the self-exiled.
Over at 7 Days of Shooting the weekly theme is “A Book Title”.
All that, and the fact that it’s “Black and White Wednesday, sent me off in search of a book title about leper colonies. I know that’s all very strange – but it’s just how my mind works.
Anyway, I found a book title, and it is so utterly intriguing I put a hold on it at the library and will probably lay my hands on it this weekend. It sounds like fiction, but it’s a true story about a real place. Here’s a good recording about the place:
www.thestory.org/stories/2013-08/legacy-home-leprosy-pati...
Here’s a bit of the review from Goodreads:
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
by Neil W. White III
White . . . had it all . . . The problem was he didn't have the money to pay for it. So he began kiting checks [and] found himself sentenced to a year and a half in prison. Justice, it turned out, would be more than skin deep. White was assigned to Carville, a prison that doubled as a leper colony. Everything about Carville was tailor-made to make White rethink his priorities. He didn't change overnight, but as White turned his incarceration into a crusade to end the stigma of leprosy, he learned lessons in humility, generosity, and the simple transcendent beauty of the human spirit. His story is well worth reading.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217732-in-the-sanctuary-of-o...