I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in the Pacific NW USA with my husband and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
Archive for 'Deep Thoughts'
The Final Analysis
by Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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Endings
When I started working in health care, I wondered how I would react to having to deal with the death of a patient, and how I would feel about touching a dead body. As it turned out, I found it to be a deeply moving experience. This is an essay I wrote a year or [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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In His Image
After discovering the complete absurdity of my God-image (see Creating God in Our Own Image) I started working on coming up with a new one. Because of my quest to find the relationships between life and science and religion and spirituality, I have tried to build a God-image that works for all of them, incorporating [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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Creating God in Our Own Image
I brought up the topic of spiritual dyslexia before (Paradox), and thought I’d expand on that a bit. One of the multitudinous things we humans have got all turned around is the whole God’s Image thing. The book of Genesis says that God created man in His own image. It occurs to me, however, that [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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Paradox
My ponderings on things spiritual and energetic have continued without interruption since my previous postings on love and energy and physics. (Let There be Light, Have You Hugged Your Rabbit Today?, Reality, and Other Strange Notions, Further Explorations, Attack of the Killer Strawberries) I haven’t written about them in a while, because I keep waiting [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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See Me
This poem was found in a nursing home, written by an anonymous resident. It’s been made into a short film, which I saw in class today. Take some time and read it through - it’s worth a ponder or two.
See Me
What do you see, nurses, what do you see,
what are you thinking when you’re looking [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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Reality, and Other Strange Notions
“What is Real?” asks the velveteen rabbit in one of my favorite stories. Not a bad question, coming from someone with stuffing for brains. What, indeed, is real?
Carl Rogers said,
“The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive and experience it at this moment.”
Which implies that if tomorrow I experience something [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2005 under Deep Thoughts.
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