Author Archives: bethpow06
FMM 9 25 2020 Work Hygiene
“I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Sometimes I am the last person to follow my own advice. When I graduated from nursing school many years ago, I was greeted at the end […]
FMM 9 18 2020 To Gather
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein. My father-in-law was a special man. He was famous in his district for being a straight shooter, he called things as he saw them. If you knew you had done something wrong, or foolish, you avoided him, for he didn’t joke to point it out. He […]
FMM 9 11 2020 5 o’clock Somewhere
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.” ~ Saint Augustine. It was impossible this week not to feel nostalgic and emotional. Yesterday marked 100 years since the birth of my father. It was a […]
FMM 9 4 2020 Pocomaniac
“Like clouds and winds without rain is the man who brags about gifts he never gave.” ~ Proverbs 25: 14. I have always been attracted to things that are a little quirky, off center, not the norm. I blame my father, he was the one who taught me to see life from a slanted perspective, recognizing that […]
FMM 8 28 2020 Crystal Vision
FMM 8 28 2020 Crystal Vision “I’m gonna put on an iron shirt and chase Satan out of earth.” ~ Maxi Romeo. If you grew up in a Christian household like I did, you were discouraged from believing, or even showing an interest in things like astrology. There was something pagan and sacrilegious about it. […]
FMM 8 14 2020 Staying Alive
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh. I wonder when it was that man first saw an animal as a pet, rather than as a work partner, a tool extender. I remember hearing that it wasn’t until […]
FMM 7 31 2020 Code Switching
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. For many of us foot-loose travelers, the last few months of home confinement have been quite a punishment. Yet even as we express that, we feel a little guilty, aware of […]
FMM 7 24 2020 It Never Happened
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” ~ Albert Camus. I am not sure if I have ever publicly confessed to two sins of my childhood. In one case, the person most affected is still alive, and so I have the opportunity to beg forgiveness (finally). In the […]
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