“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but our self can free our mind. ”Marcus Garvey. Going back to school brings with it a host of challenges, one of which is a subject known as statistics. The good news is, they don’t expect you to know formulae any more, and there are programs that run […]
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” ~ Maya Angelou. We are all guilty of snap judgments, of using a first impression to rush to a conclusions. As a writer, my first sentence must entice, must draw you in, or you will quickly move on. For […]
“Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear, I rise…” ~Maya Angelou Nursing school is hard. It’s supposed to be. The amount of information you need to obtain; the skills that you must develop; the understanding of the human body in sickness and in health that you have to grasp; it is not for the faint-hearted. Then […]
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”~Aristotle. I moved from England to Jamaica as a child, at an age when I had no preconceived notions, no expectations. It did not occur to me that I was supposed to see differences; in skin color, in […]
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~Albert Einstein. Last Sunday I visited the Everglades. It has been a while since I went, but it took me back to a time I went there with my parents, along with two of my children. I remember sending my daughter into the Visitor’s […]
“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The fascinating thing about watching your grandchildren grow, is that you get to see a personality develop. You can study how we learn and develop as humans; how we manipulate things and information to make sense of the world; how we learn about […]
http://www.amazon.com/Friday-Morning-Messages-Inspiration-Volume/dp/151716673X FMM 9 25 15 Changing Perspective “Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.” ~Patricia Hill Collins Last night I heard ‘Her Story’, about a woman whose name I had never heard before: Dorothy Day. Of course I immediately thought of Doris Day, but this was a woman of a totally different order. […]
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” ~Langston Hughes. The human brain is an amazing organ, one which holds many mysteries. Why do we ask questions? How do we solve mathematical problems in our head? How did the first man think of rubbing two sticks together […]
‘A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.’~John Maxwell. One of the last classes before nursing students graduate is a class on leadership. It includes a great deal of practical hours in the clinical setting, usually with an experienced nurse who is working in a leadership position. This […]
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