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Archive for April, 2009
Golden Oldie…
Apr 30th
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit —
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar,
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit –
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.-Edgar Guest
Nurses…
Apr 25th
Almost done reading this book again… I absolutely love all of Echo Heron’s books, and highly recommend them. She has a flair for vividly painting with words what it’s like to be a nurse, and makes you understand the joys, and frustrations that go hand, and hand, with nursing.
This is what Library Journal said about this book:
Heron’s earlier books, Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse
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If I had to choose the one nurse that has deeply touched my life, I’d choose Jeanne Groth, R.N., R.D.M.S.. She was the nurse in the infertility practice I went to, and it was her job to deal with all the infertility patients. Her compassion, and support, was what kept me from giving up when my previous attempts to conceive failed. Trying to get pregnant when you’re infertile is a harrowing experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and every failed attempt makes you soul weary. She could always lift my spirits with her buoyant personality, and gave me the courage I needed to try to conceive again. Thank you Jeanne for helping us conceive our beautiful son. |
Deep Thoughts…
Apr 16th
I’d like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he’s flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that’s a documentary.
I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I’d like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.
Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don’t know what your rights are, or who the person is you’re talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.
If you’re a cowboy and you’re dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.
As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it’s okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But only if you’re serious about adopting the vulture.
Broken promises don’t upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you.
One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don’t run with a wooden stake.
If you go to a costume party at your boss’s house, wouldn’t you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss’s wife? Trust me, it’s not.
There’s nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.
Consider the daffodil. And while you’re doing that, I’ll be over here, looking through your stuff.
For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here’s a tip: why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness?
If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing, I’d glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. “Wait a minute! I thought we won!”
Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, Yahoo!, I’d have all my money back.
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They’re sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.
Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you’ll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that’s my point.
I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.
Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man.
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