Tag Archives: empathy
FMM 5 23 2025 Secrets and Shame
“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.” ~ Friedrick Nietzsche. One of the joys of retirement is that road trips can be the way to get to far distant events. This also means that routines are disrupted, and Friday morning messages are late! Which is the case […]
FMM 4 25 2025 Inner Vision
“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” ~ Bruce Barton. I have been fortunate that in my life, very few of my encounters with the health care system have been from the point of view of the patient. It is easy to be the one in the uniform, in control of things, able to complete tasks […]
FMM 4 4 2025 Tan Tuddy!
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” ~ Peter Marshall. I was a frontline nurse working in Miami when AIDS appeared, with all of the unknowns that went along with it. In the early years it seemed to be […]
FMM 5 17 2024 Half the Story
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu. Mother-daughter relationships are complicated. I have no idea why they have to be, but it is an altogether different vibe from mother-son connection. Having one daughter and three sons, I learned that early on. There was a […]
FMM 9 15 2023 For the Nurses
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” ~ John Constable. I know without a doubt that my life would have been very different had I not been transplanted at an early age […]
FMM 9 2 2022 Living History
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. I often wonder what happened to Evelyn. The first school I went to in Jamaica was a private ‘Prep’ school, run by a married […]
FMM 6 26 2020 Stay Curious
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa. I am not sure when it is that we begin to be curious about our parents’ lives before we were born. Perhaps it is when we hit our rebellious teenage years, sure we have all the answers and our parents […]
FMM 3 27 2020 No Time for Platitudes
“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” ~ Albert Camus. This week I saw a headline that said that New York women were going to have to give birth alone. It was not as stark as it sounded. It wasn’t that the poor women were going to have to squat […]
FMM 10 18 19 Righteous Indignation
“My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.” ~ Elijah Cummings. One of the problems for researchers who wish to observe the interactions of humans, is that the very act of observation changes those interactions. We see this every day now, with people trying to go ‘viral’ with their homemade videos. We may be […]
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