Healing isn't just the mechanics of medicine.
Healing is also to be present for the person who is suffering, to be present and listen.
Twenty people had gathered there for a candlelight procession, the final event in observance of World AIDS Day Tuesday. A loop of red ribbon was pinned on the continent of Africa, where AIDS has become an epidemic. I'm here to show support. Rabbi Daniel Pressman of Congregation Beth David in Saratoga, spoke briefly before the candlelight procession began. The AIDS issue has gotten tangled with people's views of homosexuality.