“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Unknown. My mother had a few odd sayings she would throw at me when, as a teenager, I would be obsessing about some perceived flaw (usually on my face). ‘A blind man and (or on?) a galloping horse…’ which was […]
“We been fighting for all the wrong stuff, We better fight to stay in love.” ~ Tanya Stephens. One of my favorite stories about my childhood arrival in rural Jamaica, which I have probably told many times, is about our encounter with a snoring animal. It was bad enough trying to adjust to the sounds […]
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~ Charles Spurgeon. Back in the day, many years ago, before we had personal computers or smart phones, before the Internet, we used to communicate by sending handwritten (or typed, if you were fancy or in business) letters. These […]
“To him who is in fear, everything rustles.” ~ Sophocles. I remember finding a book of jokes, when I was quite young. I was a good reader, and these jokes were fairly easy to decipher especially as the book was illustrated with drawings. One joke told of a man carefully driving a little car on […]
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” ~ Desmond Tutu. Manchester, England used to be famous for its rainfall. Having lived there as an adult for three years, over 40 years ago, I can attest to there being lots of grey sky, frequent rainy days, quite a […]
“America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.” ~ Benazir Bhutto. Although I was old enough, I cannot say I remember where I was when Kennedy was killed. Our family had just moved to Jamaica, and I imagine […]
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore. When you grow up in the church, it goes without saying that you soon learn that doing unto others, caring for the least among us, is done without thinking. […]
“’Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” ~ Alice Walker. One of the first things I learned, once I began teaching nursing students, was how much I had to relearn. The temptation, especially after having been a nurse for […]
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox. When it comes to gifts and blessings, the nurse learns early on that health has to be number one. Even if you were not exposed to illness before entering the healthcare field, it is not long before you […]
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