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FMM 4 7 2023 Glimmers of Hope
“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 […]
FMM 9 30 2022 Special Gifts
“Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it.” ~ Florence Nightingale. My first nursing experience was on a gynecology ward, run by an old-fashioned ward Sister (Nurse Manager, US style). She was close to retiring and had not changed the way she ran the ward […]
FMM 9 9 2022 Holisticism
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” ~ Desmond Tutu. I greeted my two near death experiences with song. When I went into labor with my first child, the only way I could handle the pain that I thought was about to kill me, was by singing ‘Nearer […]
FMM 10 22 2021 Rivers in the Sky
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser. The art of science is to be able to make it comprehensible to common man. I remember learning ‘General Science’ in high school, and learning about the water cycle. To illustrate this concept, we had to draw a body of water, the sun […]
FMM 10 15 2021 The Sound of Silence
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ~ Anton Chekhov. I don’t remember learning about ‘therapeutic communication’ when I was in nursing school forty years ago. Of course, some concepts have earned names which change over time, but being taught how to respond to patients, especially […]
FMM 9 3 2021 Means and Extremes
“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.’ “~ Brene Brown. You never know what will trigger a memory. I was sat in traffic the other day, and saw a small poster advertising a Bible bookstore. When I was a teenager, my Saturday […]
FMM 8 13 2021 Our patchwork life
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” ~ Stephen Sondheim. My grandfather (whom I never met since he died some years before I was born) was a truck driver. He left school at the age of twelve, and his first job was to stand outside a grocery store (where there […]
FMM 5 1 2020 The Evolution will not be Televised
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” ~ C. L. Stuart. When I was about seventeen, I was itching to learn to drive. This was in Jamaica, back in the days when stick shifts were standard, automatics were rare. I was the youngest child, and only one still at […]
FMM 9 27 19 Regeneration
“If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.” ~ Maya Angelou. Ninety-nine years ago, my father was born, the third child of a truck driver and his housewife. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood knowing that the only way out of poverty was education. […]
FMM 3 29 19 Mother and Child Reunion
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver. I am the youngest in my family. I found that to be frustrating as a child, as I had no baby brothers or sisters to play with. My mother was unmoved by my requests. She often declared herself to ‘have no maternal […]
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