An old cartoonist sees the light in Nogales, Arizona
I always marveled at my fellow Tucsonans who found the time or made the time to volunteer. “Good” I’d think to myself. Let someone else do it. I’m busy. I pay taxes. I donate to charities. That should take care of things. I only have so much time. And time is money. And I got bills to pay and if I had any time to spare I got family needs to tend to, chores to tackle and errands to run.Until I learned a humbling lesson on a December morning that began at the Nickel’s Diner in Rio Rico.
In Nickel’s Diner, I met up with my friend, Francisco — Dr. Valencia, to you — for breakfast, along with a pride of our pals, photographer Steve Meckler, Elliot Glicksman and Rick Unklesbay. He’d suckered all of us into tagging along with him to the St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic in Nogales along with two more Saints, Dr. Bertil Romanus and Dr. Brandon Pike. Francisco warned us. “December is the Christmas Clinic so it will be busy, festive, and a little silly, all to celebrate the children.
At one point I turned to my friend Rick, who was profoundly moved and said, “We just aren’t accustomed to decency.” Decades ago, I cartooned my way through a kid’s cancer ward at Diamond Children’s Medical Center, trading cartoon portraits for smiles. Contemplating the heart-breaking and inspiring kids I had seen, I ran a red light heading home, lucky I didn’t get killed. Tough guy, right?
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