Kindness Challenge

Into the deep well of human kindness is borne a wish 

for only goodness and light,
to ease the troubles of a world
tugging and pulling at right or wrong

It is easy to see the kindness in a smile or hear it in a song.
To practice kindness each day may not be so easy when life hustles and bustles around us.

Accepting this challenge within and to oneself is a good place to start.

Like a ripple in still water kind acts spread gently from the center
To carry sunny smiles and open hands to the next and the next
out from under clouds of fear or mistrust
to stand apart, yet stand beside, in fun, hope and love.

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness 

your daily modus operandi and change your world.”

~ Annie Lennox

Nap Culture

Challenges come in all sizes:
paying bills when the money’s tight
including rent, groceries and gas for the car
voting for just the right party to run the country

And then there’s the small ones:
taking a nap in the late afternoon
with the comfortablest blankie
when energies have been stretched and spent to the limit.

Naps for children are normal for most
(‘cept for me ‘cause I didn’t want to miss something)
Naps for adults are tinged with guilt for not doing something ~
That needs to change!

There must be this change in this great world of ours
so that naps are normal for most
not just normal, but expected and done
peacefully, calmly and with a purpose only to nap.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”

~ Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown’s Little Book of Wisdom

Follow-up Care

Challenges in nursing are many
But oh, the ease at the end of the day
When gratitude follows me home.

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude”

~ Bruce Wilkinson