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FMM 8 21 2020 Hear me

August 21, 2020 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational · Leave a comment

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ~ James Baldwin. My mother was a talker.  Later in life we surmised that her childhood may have been difficult, parents who sometimes didn’t speak to each other for months, so perhaps the children developed the […]

FMM 8 7 2020 Ah the Humanity

August 7, 2020 · by · in Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama. If you were to ask me whether I was an arts or sciences kind of student I would immediately select the sciences.  Most of the subjects I sat in my Cambridge ‘O’ (for ordinary) Level exams, and all of those I […]

FMM 5 8 2020 Doing the Right Thing

May 8, 2020 · by · in Uncategorized · 1 Comment

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi.  I left home at the age of eighteen and a half, finished with high school, ready to enter the profession of nursing.  The weird thing about growing up in a small […]

FMM 4 24 2020 The Ties that Bond

April 24, 2020 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” ~ Epictetus. We are living through an amazing time. There are eras in your life that are special. When I started in nursing school in England in the 70s, I knew absolutely […]

FMM 6 1 18 Lowest Common Denominator

June 1, 2018 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway. My husband was a fan of foreign cars.  In particular, he developed a fondness for the Italian Alfa Romeo.  In our early marriage we were ignorant of how to survive in the USA and so we soon lost the little […]

FMM 3 30 18 Embouldered

March 30, 2018 · by · in Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”~ Charles Dickens. In high school one of my favorite subjects was geology. Having decided I wanted to be a nurse, I was basically free to specialize in the subjects of my choice, as the entrance requirements to nursing school […]

FMM 10 23 15 Learning from failure

October 23, 2015 · by · in Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“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 […]

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