February 2011
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"Did you always want to go into nursing?"
“Always” is a funny thing isn’t it? When I was a little girl, I wanted to be everything. I wanted to be the universe. I wanted to have a horse ranch, be a concert pianist, be able to walk like everybody else, be a doctor, be a writer, be a princess, an astronaut, a jockey. I wanted to taste the world and hold it in my hands, to eat of its bright heart. I believed I would conquer...
January 2011
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Watchgreatestgeneration:
Wow! Really excited to see this short film!
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“And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin: A Left-Handed Commencement Address (Mills College, 1983) (via dxdt)
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Things I Love Thursday
It’s almost my birthday!! Are you excited?? I am, obviously. Even though I’ve already gotten my present, I still really like my birthday. My friend S has a birthday too — Monday! so Happy Early Birthday, S, though I know you can’t see this. Faith and hope make up the foundation of the soul. Sadness is simply a little heaving of that foundation when the chilly winds...
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Brian Greene Explains Why Parallel Universes May... →
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“Fast. Cheap. Good. That’s how people want their products. It’s also how we want...”
– Justin Dillon of Call + Response (via latikaaaa)
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To my dear Alannah, who wanted to see it.
Our poem on “presumptive signs of pregnancy”, composed at the behest of an instructor for Maternity/Newborn Nursing. This was written in all of about five minutes. Originally the instructor told us to compose a “rap”, but when confronted with shocking evidence of just how gangster I can be, I feel she was happy with this instead.
You think you may be pregnant but you...
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Things I Love Thursday
Ice and snow! I love staying in while it’s cold out and sipping my coffee. Genuine, unabashed self love is life changing. If you’ve ever seen perfection and beauty in the way snow falls, in the sway of a willow, in the shimmer of the sun on the water’s edge, in the heart-shaped core of an apple, then you know this is also true. You too are enough, you too are perfect in your...
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“There must be a word for complaining vociferously about a wrong being done to...”
– JON STEWART, taking Sarah Palin to task for complaining that some wrongfully politicized the Tucson massacre by linking her and her “bullseye” map to the shootings — before calling the shooter a “left-leaning criminal” — on The Daily Show.
Yep.
(via inothernews)
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“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde (via newyorkisajungle)
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The Nook!
For my birthday early, Mr Zombi gave me: A Nook!
It’s the black & white e-ink display 3g one. I really like it. First of all, the 3g on it is fast and works well. The interface is really easy to use, which I like. You can search for things to buy/download from the device itself. It also plays audio! So you can listen to audiobooks or music using it. I didn’t know that. The...
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a forward motion: dark days. →
There’s nothing that can prepare you for the heart-wrenching moment when your deliriously confused patient looks at you in a moment of clarity and says, “I want to die.” No schooling, preceptorship, training, or textbooks can explain how it makes your heart stop in your throat, or how you lose all words and can do nothing but hurt for them.
You don’t want to hope that they get their wish, and...
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“Wherever people needed a girl with love in her heart and healing in her hands,...”
– pgs. 5-6, Cherry Ames: Flight Nurse by Helen Wells
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