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Day 204 – The Way of Love
In healthcare systems and workplace settings across American there are tyrants as real and as unjust as those who lord over the camps of North Korea or the desert plains of Rwanda. Continue reading
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Day 133 – “That Fierce Embrace”
At the Journal, we turn often to the gifts of David Whyte for the wisdom and art he brings. Continue reading
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Day 85 – Woven Together by Love
It takes courage to love boldly; it takes perseverance to love broadly. Love connects us, but fear can break its strands, Continue reading
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Day 206 – Come out, where ever you are!
I never show anyone at work what really matters to me. Only my patients know. I am afraid that people will laugh or that they will think less of me and so I hide myself. For me, this work is… Continue reading
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Day 115 – Fear not the Broom!
Perseverance is the ability to thrive under the weight of mediocrity and the seduction of the average and the ordinary. It is the ability to remain faithful for the duration. Great things of Love come out of small acts of… Continue reading
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Day 108 – Courage to Be
It takes courage to move beyond convention, compliance, and imitation and truly be who we are called to be. Continue reading
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Day 98 – Hero Worship
We need to find, again, the voice we knew as children and pass it through our adult experience so that it may become real in the world today. Why wait for retirement to start living? Other people need our energy… Continue reading
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Day 86 – The Human Heart
The human heart is both fragile and strong. It is vulnerable to wounds and it is capable of the most important actions any person can take toward another. It requires courage to take these actions, the kind of courage that… Continue reading
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Day 65 – Courage and Choice
Love requires courage. And courage is one of the most human choices we can make. Continue reading
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The Courage of Lovers
There are so many more forms of courageous exploration than those represented by people like Columbus. It can take as much courage to fully engage with a suffering victim of abuse as it can to climb Mount Everest. And that… Continue reading
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