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November 29th, 2018
What’s your love strategy? Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 2018 | Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Where is the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center?? 202 S Broadway Ave Ste 1, Urbana, Illinois 61801 Hi friends—we’re packing baskets with intriguing goodies that will be part of…
November 14th, 2018
Wowie! I could go on forever about my love of books! The house is filled with books, and it’s a fraction of what’s waiting in West Virginia. If there is any topic you are curious about, I’m sure there…
June 14th, 2018
Our third visit to Morocco was wonderful. We had a group of nearly 50 clowns and were welcomed warmly both by our hosts in Morocco and the Moroccan people. From the medinas in Marrakech to the coasts in Casablanca we…
April 17th, 2018
Greetings Gesundheit! Family! MamaCha here. We have just returned from our annual Alternative Spring Break Visit to Guatemala City—it was our 9th year there! It was very special for me, as I have been visiting for most of these 9…
April 11th, 2018
I just returned from my first week-long Clown Trip with Maria Eliseeva (of Maria’s Children) to the town of Beslan in Russia. In 2004, a group of rebels entered a school in Beslan, and held the school hostage 2 days….
March 23rd, 2018
Hello friends and happy Spring Equinox! The prospect of spring has us all giddy, although we’re currently looking out the window at a beautiful snow covered landscape. We are grateful for this heavy influx of snow and all that it…
February 25th, 2018
I, Dr. Patch Adams, believe LOVE is an intelligence. Unlike other types of types of intelligence, love is not taught in schools. Shockingly, the intelligence of love is not taught in public schools anywhere in the world. In my work…
January 19th, 2018
Greetings from the Gesundheit family in West Virginia! It has been a frosty, frozen winter so far and we have been enjoying our seasonal hibernation. The holiday season was full of love, excitement, and merriment. We welcome the return…
December 18th, 2017
Dear friends – As 2017 closes I’ve never felt so enchanted by this life in change. Never in my life has there been a louder song for change; a song where all people in the world, and all of…
December 13th, 2017
The 33rd Annual Russia Clown Tour was wonderful. Over 23 clowns from 10 different countries were joined with Russian clowns from Maria’s Children, we all came together to spread love, joy and kindness. We spent one week in Moscow and one…
December 8th, 2017
Hello! Welcome to our first ever post where we will hold space each month to discuss events and happenings on the land at Gesundheit! Institute here in the beautiful hills of Hillsboro, West Virginia. Let’s start by introducing our little…
October 14th, 2017
When I see all the heartbreak around the world, I am reminded why I chose to be an activist in the first place. After three hospitalizations in one year due to attempting suicide, I told myself, ‘you don’t kill yourself, you make…
August 20th, 2017
Couldn’t attend the 2017 Construct Your Humanism session—and would like to know what happened? The “Construct Your Humanism, 2017” education session took place this June 12-July 2 in Urbana Illinois, the home of Patch Adams MD, Susan Parenti, and…
May 15th, 2017
The Gesundheit Institute’s Teaching Center is currently under construction by our good friends at Design.Draw.Build! This 19,125 sq. ft. passive solar structure will feature a Green Roof, 8 Classrooms, Residence for 50 Students, Performance Hall, Black Box Theatre, and more. The Teaching…
February 6th, 2017
Hello my friends! Lots of people have been calling me and telling me how sad, mad, or angry they feel about the political discussion lately. We would like to share 10 positive stories that happened this past week. 1. Federal…
December 28th, 2016
G!GO report from Johnny Glick and Charlotte Huggins Guatemala City, December 2016 Gesundheit Institute clowns teamed up with US and Canadian veterans, both retired and active duty, for our second foray into humanitarian clowning. Ten veterans suffering the wounds of…
October 7th, 2016
by Carl Hammerschlag, MD For the 11th time we gathered in Iquitos Peru for the Belen Festival, an extraordinary gathering of clowns from all over the world who spread joy, build relationships, and promote health and healing in community. This…
October 3rd, 2016
Every November I see Sheremetyevo Airport transformed: strange people in bright costumes and funny hats appear, surrounded by clouds of soap bubbles. In their midst a tall oddity sporting a blue mustache stands out. He marches about the airport with…
August 11th, 2016
After a soggy, flooding, rainy-wet summer we are finally setting a solid pace with the construction of the Teaching Center on the land in West Virginia. After additional delays due to a lack of cranes following the major floods in Greenbriar County,…
June 10th, 2016
I get a lot of criticism for calling capitalism the worst disease in history and the probable cause of our extinction. I will not list the many hundreds of frightening books in my library educating global warming. I cannot expect…
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