Category Global health and disparities
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
FMM 4 12 13 ‘It is what it is.’ Or is it?
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” ~Reinhold Niebuhr. Several things have happened recently to remind me how important your attitude to your life is. It may take us a while before we learn how to deal […]
FMM 3 15 13 The meaning of life
The sight of the night sky filled with stars is enough to stop you in your tracks and wonder ‘what does it all mean?’ I got my first view of a tropical sky, far away from the city lights from the deck of an ocean liner. I was seven years old; the family was on […]
2 15 13 Truth or consequences
“When we take words to be statements of ultimate truth, then differences of opinion will inevitably result in conflict.” ~Joseph Goldstein Have you ever known people who use the word ‘truth’ to mean opinion? People who will tell you whatever is on their mind, and then tell you “I always speak the truth”, failing […]
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