Category Global health and disparities
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 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 […]
FMM 7 17 2020
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca. This week I had one of those dreams that seems so real, yet cannot be told as a story when you wake up. What seemed to have plot and purpose breaks up into images and situations which […]
FMM 7 10 2020 It’s an Illusion
“The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.” ~ Bodhidharma. In my youth I was an avid reader. From the simple fairy tales of childhood, through girl detective stories to historical romances, I read them all. Short stories were special treats, you […]
FMM 7 3 2020 Raw Soul
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” ~ Frederick Douglass. Upstate New York is an idyllic place, a place of woods and hills and dappled light. There are place names that reveal the original owners of the land, along with […]
