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Days 75-79 Why BSW-Grapevine Medical Center is Golden
As this essay is published (March 16, 2020) COVID-19 crisis is omnipresent. One hospital you can count on to deliver loving care is Baylor Scott & White’s Grapevine Medical Center. And one leader I would hire to run Riverside Methodist… Continue reading
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Days 282-286 – Your Truest Voice
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (a classmate in the early 1950s) so successfully mimicked his dad’s voice that he never found his own. So many of our truths are drowned because we are afraid to speak them. The greatest value of an… Continue reading
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Days 32-36 – Called to Lead – The Power of the Prism
He became one of our greatest leaders. Yet, his father whipped him regularly until he was fifteen & told a friend, “I’ll make something of him even if I have to beat him to death.” At age twelve, the same… Continue reading
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Days 363 to New Year Days 2 & 3 – Smooth Lightning
“What light shines from your presence?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 5-6 High Flight
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed… Continue reading
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Days 24-26 – “Good in the Worst of Us”
“…biased thinking can affect the quality of our caregiving.” Continue reading
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Days 124 & 125 – Other Worlds
“I’m not always sure what’s going on,” Ayers says through the voice of actor Jamie Foxx in the new movie, The Soloist, based on the true story of the lives of Ayers and Steven Lopez, the L.A. Times columnist who… Continue reading
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Day 75 – The Charter for Compassion
Compassionate living requires that senior executives and middle managers cede power and arrogance and yield to humility and loving service. Continue reading
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Day 155 – the Beloved Community
Caring circles are designed to support not task work but compassion work. King wrote that “something must happen so as to touch the hearts and souls of [people] that they will come together, not because the law says it, but… Continue reading
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