The days of small things

Authors

  • Chris Ellis

Abstract

In the 1970s, I did a weekly rural clinic in the Injasuti Valley in the Drakensberg mountains. The clinic was near the river and outside were some tall gum trees that quietly sang when the warm summer winds came sweeping down the valleys. There were usually some cattle slowly cropping the grass near the clinic while unperturbed goats would tug at the lower branches of a thorn tree under which the patients sat, discussing the affairs of the day. They were what the prophet Zechariah called “the days of small things”.

Author Biography

Chris Ellis

Family Physician, South Africa

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Published

2024-07-02

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Reflections