“I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.” ~ Howard A. Walter. I want to say that my relationship with music began around the time I moved to Jamaica (which would be appropriate, though possibly not accurate). My early days in Jamaica would usually end in music, since a television was not a […]
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta Scott King. My mother was one of those annoying parents/teachers who was never off duty. She would be on your case in every way, checking on your posture, your behaviour, your manners, she never took a day […]
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ~ Herodotus. I used to be an excellent worrier. I somehow felt that if I imagined all of the possible bad outcomes that could happen, then they wouldn’t happen. It would be arrogance on my part (I […]
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Growing up in the church, you have lots of Bible stories to entertain you, many of them appealing to kids. Picture animals marching two by two into a ship, as Noah gets ready for an apocalyptic flood. Or Moses parting the […]
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” ~ Albert Camus. I was brought up by pacifists. My father and his two brothers refused to be enlisted in World War II because their Christian beliefs told them to love their enemies, and not to kill their fellow man. They each had to […]
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.” ~ Sojourner Truth. I was submerged in diversity from an early age. Plucked from the rainy, grey city of Manchester in the UK, I was exposed to the natural beauty and colorful environment of rural Jamaica. They talk about culture shock, for those who move from one part of […]
“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” ~ Brene Brown. When I finally went back to school to get my undergraduate degree, I was around fifty years old. I had graduated from nursing school in the UK fresh out of high school, and had been working as […]
“What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.”~ C. L. Stuart. I suppose all of us can identify a teacher that made a huge impression on us as a child, for good or bad. In teaching ‘dosage calculation’ to nursing students, it is clear that many are traumatized by some […]
“It is not the critic who counts…” Theodore Roosevelt. This Friday morning, my message will be brief, for a variety of reasons. I have been reflecting on how difficult it can be, when you are a people pleaser from childhood, to be criticized. It feels personal. When I was in a position to be making […]
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