What Death has Taught Me About Life

I want to share with you a beautiful poem. DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC by Edna St. Vincent Millay I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the…
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When was the last time you wrote a letter? Or received one? Perhaps a birthday or Christmas card with a handwritten note? For many, not recently. I’m…
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Many people ask me about regrets. “What do people say they regret the most at the end of their lives?” I have seen this question posed numerous times. I…
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Ugh. This week has been tough. So much going on in the world. The news nonstop. The hospitals we work in, still full. The politics, the anger. It feels…
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“May this be a safe place Full of understanding and acceptance, Where you can be as you are, Without the need of any mask Of pretense or image.” ~from a…
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I want you to meet Jane. She works at the local grocery store. All day long she rings up customers. She asks about your day, she makes sure to handle…
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Yesterday, a physician whom I admired a lot, was killed in a tragic car accident, along with his wife. They leave 4 children and a grieving community…
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Today, a patient I adored died. No, she didn’t die from Covid. She died from cancer. And not a good cancer. A cancer that makes it impossible to eat…
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What Death has Taught Me About Life

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