Tag Archives: Everglades
11 18 2022 Citizen of the World
“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”~ Haile Selassie. My grandmother was born in Patagonia, Argentina. Her parents had […]
FMM 4 8 2022 Sustainable Optimism
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ~ Pablo Picasso. I am always amazed that my hand cannot produce what my mind sees. I love to draw, and frequently illustrate my lectures with beautiful sketches of human organs. My audience is not as impressed as I would hope. […]
FMM 4 1 2022 To Bear Witness
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” ~ Khalil Gibran. I don’t remember the first poem I ever learned although I’m sure it was a ‘nursery rhyme’. One of my aunts gave me a book of poetry when I was quite young. It was entitled ‘The […]
FMM 1 28 2022 This I do for Me!
“Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.” ~ Melody Beattie. This week I found myself in a familiar role, one that is not mentioned in my job description, and probably is outside of my scope of practice also. Nurses have a whole section of state statutes covering our practice (the Nurse Practice […]
FMM 7 20 18 It’s only Birds
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”~ Langston Hughes. There are a few songs from my childhood memories that feature birds. In wintertime in England we worried about poor robin-redbreast, who had to keep himself warm, by hiding his head under his wing (poor thing). We […]
FMM 10 9 15 Spirit Trails
“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 […]
FMM 4 4 14 Thin Places
FMM 4 4 14 Thin Places “Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter.” ~ Eric Weiner. Considering that I have long been a fan of all things Celtic (an ancient Indo-European tribe that wandered from East Europe as far as […]
FMM 11 22 13 Making the Connection
“And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee….” ~ John Donne Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy. To be honest, I don’t remember his death, even though I was old enough at the time. For me and my family, that was around […]
Friday Morning Messages 