Category Inspirational
FMM 10 11 13 What does it all mean?
“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.” ~ Aristotle. When I was a teenager I had large thoughts and grand questions. Was it reasonable to think that our earth was the only habitable planet in the universe? Could there be another world, another population, possibly another me out there somewhere? Was […]
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 […]
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