I just finished nursing school!

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.

-- T.S. Eliot

Yes, yes I do.  It's  musical quality is outstanding, in my opinion. The beats, the prominent piano chords, the brass sections, all of it pretty much forces your body to get up and start dancing. It doesn't even matter if you know salsa or not. I think salsa music is one of those types of music that hits at the core of the human soul and just ( Read more... )

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by
themselves or by others."

--Mark Twain

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a
heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master
and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled
because we lacked the faith to believe in our ( Read more... )

"If you want to be happy, be."

--Leo Tolstoy

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live
now."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The past and the future have a way of sometimes robbing us of the
present. It is in the present where we live, so when that happens we
are really being robbed of life itself. Always live in the present,
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"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it ( Read more... )

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All ( Read more... )

For my non-nursing friends, preceptorship is the five week period in which I will be working one on one with a nurse.  I'm going to be at INOVA Fairfax Hospital on the pediatric medical-surgical unit! Two of my good friends work there which makes it even better. Maaaaaybe I can hope for a job there at the end of school?? Who knows. Either way, I'm ( Read more... )

“Everyone Is God Speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him”

-- Hafiz - Sufi Poet

“……listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant. They
too have their story.”

-- Max Ehrmann

Sometimes it is difficult to listen to others. Perhaps we feel too
busy to take the time to listen. We may, at times, feel needy and just
want others to listen to ( Read more... )

"Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple
things.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or
watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It’s often the
little things that really matter in life.”

-- Unknown

Why do you want that new car and the bigger house? Why do you ( Read more... )

“First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then
I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying
to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to
grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to
retire. And now, I am dying ….. and suddenly realize I forgot to
live.”

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