Category Inspirational
FMM 10 04 13 More than the sum of our parts.
‘Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.’ ~ Jean-Paul Sartre. Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human body is? We are composed of trillions of cells, each with their own job to do. Born as common stem cells, they grow up and differentiate into specialists, performing […]
FMM 9 27 13 The waiting is the hardest part.
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” ~Edmund Burke. I freely admit to being a very impatient person. If given a choice, I will take the stairs instead of the elevator because of impatience, not for the health benefits. I realize I am not alone in this. Pregnancy is one of those lessons for […]
FMM 9 20 13 River come down
“When peace like a river…” There are times when the news is hard to believe. Fact can indeed be stranger than fiction. We watch in a state of numb disbelief as we see images of roiling rivers carrying away houses, cars, bridges and roads. And then there’s a story of another mass shooting. From the […]
FMM 8 30 13 Living the Dream?
“We will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves” ~ Jean Varnier, paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr. Images of 1963: a peaceful ocean of faces, steadfast and hopeful, marching, standing, working for a better future. A short man elevated by his own rhetoric, rhetoric so powerful […]
FMM 8 23 13 More Questions than Answers
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ~ Plutarch For some people, the purpose of going back to school is to obtain a piece of paper, some kind of documentation to improve your job opportunities. For others, it is a way to prove something to yourself. Perhaps as […]
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 […]
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