When I was an intern learning to be the doctor in a Code Blue situation, one of my mentors gave me this valuable piece of advice: “Feel your own pulse first.” I thought to myself: In a Code Blue, the patient may be turning blue. The patient is the one that may not have a …Read More
Month: April 2017
The Rise and Fall of the Pun
What did the donkey say when he started to cough? I’m sorry, I’m just a little hoarse. When you hear a “good” pun, there is a reflex to moan, and you immediately say, “Oh, that was bad,” as if you had sustained a mortal wound. With a truly “good” pun, you might think, “That was …Read More
Poem: If Only to Receive
A friend and poet, Daniel Cryns, shares these words, “If only to receive…” (Poem is posted below with permission.) “If Only to Receive…” by Daniel Cryns If only to receive the song of today in reverence, delight… No need to own it, no need to share it. To fully take in that which will never …Read More
Poem: We Have Come to Be Danced
“The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I’m not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I’m talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.” —Gabrielle Roth Ecstatic …Read More
Florida Storytelling Festival: “The Teacher”
“Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done.” — Rudy Francisco There are special people in the world who teach us what love is. One of those people came into my life in middle school as a very special teacher and mentor. Mrs. Chennault …Read More
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The Invitation —by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool …Read More
Hole in the Sidewalk
There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk ― by Portia Nelson I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole …Read More
Poetry Month – April 2017
April is NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) in the United States and Canada; or for my international friends, GloPoWriMo (Global Poetry Writing Month). In this annual project, participants take on the challenge to write a poem a day for the month of April: 30 poems in 30 days. Maureen Thorson began a personal challenge in …Read More