Author Archives: bethpow06
FMM 8 16 13 ‘My cup it overflows’
‘I cried that I had no shoes til I met a man who had no feet’~Mahatma Gandhi By Tuesday of this week I had already convinced myself I was exhausted. I worked a twelve hour shift with students at a clinical site on Monday, taught all day Tuesday – life was indeed hard. In fact […]
FMM 8 2 13 Heaven in a grain of sand
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”~ Margaret Mead Do you ever spend any time thinking about what brought you to this point right here right now? There is something very beautiful about the randomness that ensured that a particular set of chromosomes combined with another set of chromosomes to produce the […]
FMM 7 26 13 Reflect before you react.
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”~Frank A. Clarke. One of the questions we ask our prospective nursing students is: How do you handle constructive criticism? Sometimes I wonder why we need to put the word ‘constructive’ in front, shouldn’t all criticism be constructive? If you […]
FMM 7 19 13 Truth and Reconciliation
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. At the end of an emotional week, it helps to try to pull back and look at the big picture. Despite the tragedy and frustration of the realities of life in the USA in general, and in Florida in particular, there are also […]
FMM 7 12 13 It’s all about me.
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ~George Clooney. If you spend any time on facebook, you may sometimes find yourself wondering why people decide to have a public and contentious debate on any given subject. Often by the time they give up, they have dragged any number of people in, and […]
FMM 7 5 13 Moving Mountains
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. How much are you paralyzed by fear and doubt? What is it that you would do if you knew in advance that you would be successful? The fear that we will not succeed prevents many of […]
Creating Peace
Creating Peace.
FMM 6 21 13 One Drop
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.” ~ Lao Tzu. I wasn’t great at Chemistry when I was in high school. Neither Chemistry nor Physics really got me excited. But I never forgot the concept of quantitative analysis versus qualitative analysis. We had burettes […]
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