Category Inspirational
FMM 8 7 15 Being and Knowing
Set a better example (Better set an example)~Alton Ellis. Teaching and learning are two completely different concepts. Ask any teacher! You may teach your heart out, but if learning has not taken place, you were ineffective. When I think of the image of a college professor standing in a large auditorium, expounding at great length […]
FMM 7 31 15 Make a U-Turn
FMM 7 31 15 Make a U-Turn “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” ~Lao Tzu. I have always joked that a journey is no fun if you don’t have to make at least one or two U-turns. I once had a GPS (navigational system) that spoke to […]
FMM 7 3 15 Unexpected Blessings
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it hardly behooves any of us, to speak ill of the rest of us.” ~ Edward Wallis Hoch. We are living in some interesting times. At times of great change and uncertainty, some of us get […]
FMM 6 26 15 A Consequential Life
“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” ~ Viktor Frankl When I was about 12 years old, there was a teacher who made an impact on me, by declaring one of my classmates ‘inconsequential’. I forget what provoked the comment, but it was handed down in a […]
FMM 6 19 15 Embrace yourself!
“If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.”~Dalai Lama. This world can be a scary place, with examples of hate and violence evident in living color whenever we turn […]
FMM 6 12 15 Leaving room for growth
“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”~John Dewey Do you remember how annoying it was, at the beginning of each school year, when you had to wear those baggy, too tall uniforms, specially designed for you to grow into? There is that […]
FMM 6 5 15 Pay Attention!
“Be curious, not judgmental”~ Walt Whitman. I am descended from a set of adventurers, on both sides of my family tree. Unlike those who declared they were off to ‘discover’ the world, I am pretty sure my great grandfathers were simply looking for opportunities to take care of their families. And so they boarded ships […]
FMM 5 15 15 Points of Contact
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” ~ Booker T. Washington. When you graduate from nursing school, you get a Pinning ceremony. This is separate and apart from the more familiar graduation event, that comes with cap and gown, in a huge auditorium, shared with students you may not know. For […]