Jewel Garden

Almost two months ago my father-in-law gave me a clipping he cut from his daily paper. It was about a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines who was born with severely clubbed feet (club foot is a birth defect where the foot is twisted in, inverted and down, thus the person with clubfeet appear to be walking on the sides of their feet or on their ankles.) and complicated by another birth defect that involves the incomplete development of the spinal cord or its coverings called spina bifida. He thought I might be interested since it is news about “home”. And indeed I was, and I thanked him. That same girl, Jingle Luis, took her first unaided steps Wednesday, July 2 in…