ABSTRACT
Cultural remnants, however, continue to exist and can be seen by those who have developed the eyes to do so. These remnants, like the remote farm on the island of Saba or the ways people help those with disabilities in neighborhood, are fragments of cultures that once blanketed the world. Such fragments can remain even within the caring professions. Caring individual professionals can serve to sustain hospitable traditions of healing professions even in the counterproductive settings in which most must work. In psychiatric hospitals, one would have to go a long way before one could find an administrator dining with his family in the patient cafeteria or welcoming patients to his personal table. Like the little library in Shin Hollow, like most cultural institutions in society set up to support and care for people, the library had run into the dominant idea of the flowchart. Like most, it had lost its cultural existence and become an economic and systemic reality.
