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Days 67-71 – Deep Comfort
Cynics are incapable of experiencing deep comfort. True healers help sufferers to trust what they cannot see, to see Beauty that is right before their eyes, to hope for miracles because life itself is a miracle & to find… Continue reading
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Days 60-64 “Love After Love”
How can there be Love AFTER Love? Derek Wolcott answers that brilliantly. In so doing, he gives us a gift beyond measure. Continue reading
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Days 53-57 – Quandaries
All memory problems are not due to disease or aging! Consider all the information older people have learned? So cut older folks a break. Dementia is not always the cause of a memory blip. Continue reading
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Days 46-50 Agathokakological: The Only Word Describing Human Nature
Since caregiving can dominate your whole life it may be wise to accept that no one (not even doctors) is perfect. Continue reading
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Days 39-43 The Music of Life
Music is a beautiful alternative to noise. Silence is another – especially when disease overwhelms us. The quieter we can make hospital environments the more healing those settings will become. Continue reading
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Days 25-29 – Why Be Average?
On July 1, 1983, the day I became president of Riverside Methodist Hospital, we planted the seeds of Radical Loving Care. In 1984 I became founding president of OhioHealth. Success came through one core achievement: creating a culture where the… Continue reading
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Days 18-22 How Art Trains Caregivers
While FaceTiming with my daughter she demonstrated how modern day portrait photography is lifted to fine art when the photographer has trained their eye so well that they create as artists. She made this image of me with a… Continue reading
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Days 11-15 The Nurse on the Roof & The Golden Thread
One hundred thirteen years ago this visiting nurse wore The Golden Thread of Radical Loving Care. The same thread now illuminates your hands. Continue reading
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Days 355-359 – Citizens of Imagi-Nation
Who personifies light for you? Invite them to your Imagi-Nation. The real world has no power there. No police can arrest you. Let love rule & you will be free. Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 