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07-17-2008, 12:22 PM | #1 | ||
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This was sent to me in an email. I thought I'd share it with you.
How to Dance in the Rain It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would be able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the n eeded supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease. As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now. I was surprised, and asked him, 'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?' He smiled as he patted my hand and said, 'She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is.' I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, 'That is the kind of love I want in my life.' True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be. With all the jokes and fun that are in e-mails, sometimes there is one that comes along that has an important message. This one I thought I could share with you. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. I hope you share this with someone you care about. I just did. 'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | lou_lou (07-19-2008), smithclayriley (07-19-2008) |
07-17-2008, 01:57 PM | #2 | |||
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WOW!!!!!!!!
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07-19-2008, 09:37 AM | #3 | |||
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if you are good with words - I know of a place that might read them on the radio here is a poem they read on - "A Prarie Home Companion" there are many... http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/f..._dembeck.shtml The Blue Iris By Mary Grace Dembeck May 08, 2008 They grew, those irises, in our ragged little backyard in the city when I was a young girl — their gracefully cupped petals and trailing falls rising above most other growth nearby. We called that yard "our garden", but it was a wild affair: moonseed tangling with tea roses for supremacy along the derelict fence; basil, marjoram and mint in fragrant bandy by our kitchen door; varicolored morning glories and scarlet four 0'clocks riotously dividing up the day. But it was the blue irises — smelling so incredibly blue, (or so it seemed to my young mind), that have always lit my memory. We never tended them, fed or divided them, as knowledgeable gardeners would — we never knew we should, yet they grew for us year after year. About the author: I've been writing poetry all my life, ever since I was in the third grade. One day I just may surprise everybody and write a really good one. Meanwhile, I'll just keep writing poems because I happen to love doing it. If that's my only reward, it's worth it.
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | RLSmi (07-19-2008) |
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