The weekly "Polityka" runs a nice story about Bohdan Smoleń, in Polish,
http://www.polityka.pl/spoleczenstwo/artykuly/1517832,2,hipoterapia-i- inne-terapie-bohdana-smolenia.read .
Those who do not read Polish at all may find few bio paragraphs here in English, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Smoleń .
And those who read Polish at least a bit will find more about him in Polish, here: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Smoleń
The following is a jocular story that punctuates the Polityka's article.
Translated: Bohdan Smoleń begins the story about why he helps children with disabilities: in Krakow there was a joke about two guys who ran out of vodka in the middle of the night...
Anyone sitting down to drink, knows pretty well that a bottle will ever get emptied, since this the inexorable law of physics. Yet these two panicked. It was a middle of the night, there were no 24-hours stores under socialism rule, all illegal dens were out of moonshine - well, "kurva", what a tragedy!
But drinkers' minds are ever creative because they constantly wonder about chances to get a next drink. Cunning - the purest form of intelligence, shows them the way. In the Smoleń's Krakowian joke about prematurely emptied bottle of vodka, one friend says: - There is a tank of methyl alcohol, at the main railway station, so let's take an empty bottle, go there and fill her up.
In this Krakow's joke of his youth, the two guys stay in front of the the tank of methyl alcohol and deliberate. If they drink it, they might get blind. - You know - one of them says, waving his hand - I have virtually seen everything already.
- And I have seen everything in life - Smoleń ends his story. - So I can now take care of disabled children.
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