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Welcome Spring!
Shout with joy, it’s spring!!
New beginnings, new birth, and new opportunity. Nature has reminded me that life goes on in spite of the dreary winter or the dreary 2020. The azaleas are in full bloom in my yard and the dogwood trees have bursts of white blooms among their branches.
It’s so easy to get caught up in what’s not right in the world and lose sight of this very moment. This moment right now when you are reading this post is where all your power exists. My past will never be again, and my future has not yet arrived. All I have is right…this…very…moment, with you.
What are you doing? How are you feeling? Who are you with? Where are you sitting or standing? Look around at your surroundings.
Now I want you to focus on something nearby that is lovely or interesting or odd. Something that catches your eye, and then spend 5 extra seconds really looking at it. an object, a person, a pet, the fuzzy sock on your...
News From the Front
| Last week I attended the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s annual springtime meeting in Washington DC, cherry blossoms and all! It was a time to catch up on all the issues facing our hospice and palliative care movement, to reconnect with old friends... Jeanne Dennis, Susan Bruno, Patti Moore and Andrew Reed Pauline Taylor, Demetess Harrell, Patti and Larry Farrow and to make new ones... Dr. Angela Katz and Patti Even though the name of the event has changed to the Leadership and Advocacy Conference, it was really a gathering of the Hospice Clan. The opening plenary speaker stretched our capacity to think with our logical brains by entering the auditorium playing his electric violin. His music was simply stunning. A classically trained violinist, Kai Kight shared the inspiring story of how he chose to become an innovative composer in a field that values conformity. Kai Kight opening plenary speaker at NHPCO 2019 Similarities between the music world and... |
