Author Archives: bethpow06
FMM 8 14 2026 Big up Yourself!
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Anonymous. My father always treasured the stories of the so-called ‘little people’ – the kind you never read about in the newspapers (back then, of course, before the explosion of social media). As a minister he must have […]
FMM 8 7 2026 Get it Together!
“We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.” ~ Isabel Allende. One of the privileges of being a nurse (or anyone in the health field) is that you are confronted daily with the reality, the fragility of life. I hadn’t had […]
FMM 7 31 2026 Are we Redeemable?
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” ~ Bob Marley, inspired by Marcus Garvey. I well remember the feeling of guilt after I had done something wrong (something bad!) as a child. My wrongdoing may have been minor, but at the time the feeling of guilt, of shame, was real. […]
FMM 7 17 2026 Reboot, Reboot!
“In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love.” ~ Brock Peters. The ability to read quickly is not necessarily a good thing. In my (former) work life, I often forgot, or even denied, receiving an email, only to find I had not only received it, I […]
FMM 7 10 2026 We Must Remember This
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore. My father and his two older brothers were athletes. Through high school and university, they competed, often winning medals. My father’s main event was long distance: cross country, they […]
FMM 7 3 2026 Talk the Truth
‘Speak the truth and speak it ever, cost it what you will, He who hides the thing he did, does the wrong thing still’ ~ Jamaican Proverb. Growing up in Jamaica I was exposed to, not only a new language, but a new way of speaking. The ‘ole time’ country people in particular seemed to […]
FMM 6 26 2026 Go Against the Flow
“Celebrate the idea that you don’t fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique.” ~ Betsey Johnson. When my father-in-law died over twenty years ago, the family all came together for his funeral. It was a typical Jamaican funeral, although at the time the ‘set-up’ (night before, an all-night wake) had not evolved into the […]
FMM 6 19 2026 Words Misspoken
‘In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I learned to read quite early, although I cannot tell you at what age. When I went to school in England, the way of teaching reading and writing was by the phonics […]
FMM 6 12 2026 No Catastrophizing Necessary
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. When I switched careers (somewhat) after the age of 50, I learned something very important: you cannot teach what you do not know. My first career (first love) was nursing, and I […]
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