Doc Grimes Clinic

07/05/2025

To all who might be curious, Nancy and I are fine and while our local area got 15 inches of rain overnight on the 3rd we are much luckier than folks downstream. As of this morning there is one missing person locally. https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/

Thanks to all who are thinking of us.

We tell local San Angelo news & weather stories, and we do what we do to make San Angelo and the rest of the Concho Valley a better place to live.

07/03/2024

Hello, as some of you know, my parents are not aging as gracefully as they would have hoped, and it has become apparent to me that 12 hours and 3 planes (if everything works and is on time and not delayed by weather), is too far from them to be helpful.

So in order to correct this problem I am moving back to Texas to be closer to my parents and to help my brother as we try to help them navigate the aging process as gracefully as they can possibly do it.

To say good by to PEI is not easy, writing this brings tears to my eyes as I think about all the wonderful folks I have had the privilege to care for and share this life with. While I know I will carry some of the red dirt back with me ground into the knees of my gardening jeans, I will also carry with me so many memories of this island that I hope it will help heal the hole in my heart that will exist as I leave a piece of it behind in these red clay roads.

This place is special in ways I am not sure Islanders can see because they have lived with it every day for their entire life. However, I know it as I have seen it time and again throughout my 15 years here.

My last day in Clinic is the 6th of September and yes we are selling the house (we have owned two houses in two countries before and we will not repeat that experience). We will spend the month of September finalizing the packing and having the movers load everything up and our goal is to be on the road before the snows fly.

As I said, I will leave of piece of my heart here and I will definitely take a big piece of you all with me.

Thanks you for allowing me to have such an adventure with you all these last 15 years.

G

11/10/2023

Semper fidelis,
Exceeding expectations,
Leaving none behind….

10/12/2022

Teachers come when they are needed...
Bringing the lessons you have been seeking...
Then, one day, they are gone...
And it is only in that moment that you realize the gifts you have been given...

09/04/2022

Cottage flowerbeds
Mad colors leaping about
Just barely captured…..

09/04/2022

A sweet summer fare,
Warm from the garden’s grasp,
A kiss from the sun….

08/19/2022

An interesting talk on the effects of light on the human system... a bit technical, but interesting...

Sunlight provides so much more than just Vitamin D: learn from Dr. Seheult of https://www.medcram.com about the myriad of benefits from optimizing our exposu...

07/03/2022

Flour and butter,
The magic of Alchemy,
Delight is reborn….
❤️

07/01/2022

July 1, 1960

Under Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana regained the independence colonialism had stolen. His vision was brilliant and bold…

"My first objective is to abolish from Ghana poverty, ignorance, and disease. We shall measure our progress by the improvement in the health of our people; by the number of children in school, and by the quality of their education; by the availability of water and electricity in our towns and villages; and by the happiness which our people take in being able to manage their own affairs. The welfare of our people is our chief pride, and it is by this that my government will ask to be judged.".
Politics and power struggles made this hard, but in 1992 Ghana returned to multi-party democracy and remains a stable vibrant leader in Africa.

I have been lucky enough to spend time in this culturally communal nation, and my time there has made me a better human. I had the chance to be there prior to the 50th anniversary of independence and this shirt honor that time.

Today I celebrate independence from the colonial system, and pray that we may live up to our truest values as humans.

04/22/2022

Gentle rain falling,
A keen edge shaping the wood,
Loons singing softly……

01/27/2022

A symbolic pen,
Oaths taken seriously,
Allegiances sworn…

01/27/2022

The oaths duly sworn,
The signatures completed,
Canadians now…..