Author Archives: bethpow06
FMM 6 14 13 Inner Strength, Inner Beauty
‘A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.’ ~Eleanor Roosevelt. Our society is very superficial. We place a lot of value on appearances. We try to live up to fabricated concepts of beauty, and idolize athletes and celebrities. Our value system is upside […]
FMM 6 7 13 Beyond 1984
‘Big Brother is watching you’ ~George Orwell. Technology is amazing. When I started working as a nurse in this country, in order to control the rate of an intravenous drip we had to stand and count drops per minute. You would then be able to work out how many mL per minute, and thus […]
FMM 5 31 13 Challenge your Assumptions
“…I am not what you supposed, but far different…” ~ Walt Whitman I was quite surprised when I learned that the poet Walt Whitman was a nurse. During the Civil War he bandaged the wounded and held the hands of the dying. It was a time when it was deemed to be inappropriate for women […]
FMM 5 24 13 Resilience
FMM 5 24 13 Resilience.
FMM 5 24 13 Resilience
Let not your heart be troubled. What a wild week. From tornado wracked Oklahoma to the streets of London, I have not been able to wrap my head around the images on my TV screen. Sometimes you just have to turn away and say, no more. I can’t watch any more. But for the […]
FMM 5 10 13 Lift up your hearts
“See something, say something” Yesterday evening I did something I have not done for years. I got caught by one of South Florida’s tropical downpours. Now the rain itself is not unusual. I was in the Student’s Union of a local university, and was about to leave when I saw the rain. It was not […]
FMM 5 3 13 Catching the Trifecta
Many years ago I was given some very good advice by one of my nursing instructors. In class one day she drew an equilateral triangle on the board. She labeled each side physical; spiritual and psychological. She then told us that it was very important that we pay attention to each aspect of our lives […]
FMM 4 26 13 More flowers than bombs
‘No more hurting people’ ~Martin Richard, age 8. It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that evil rules the world. We have recently been bombarded with images of loss of life and limb at the hands of a couple of young men, and an explosion in a fertilizer plant which killed […]
FMM 4 19 13 What Price Freedom?
“I write what I like” ~ Steve Biko. April is National Poetry month. The poet has a particular way with words, chooses them with care and precision so as to paint a picture with as few brush strokes as possible. I have been thinking recently how fortunate the writer is. An artist has to buy […]
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