deedeewisdom

Brave and Brilliant in Battle
Florence led the way
Latern in hand, in courage,
Florence made change in her day

“Bring the fresh linens
Care for those wounds
Open the windows –
We’ll make progress soon”

Her band of nurses
They travelled so far
To care for the soldiers
In that Russian war

The doctors of England
Were angry and shocked
No way would a woman
Take charge of their wards

So day in and day out
She struggled to build
The standards and programs
That now we fulfill

One woman of courage
That lantern in hand
She conquered diseases
And took a strong stand

Statistics, procedures
Best practice she knew
The basics of nurse
Today still stand true

Diane Findlen Garrow 1/22/11

“During all the years since time began
Today has been the friend of man.

But in his blindness and his sorrow
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.

Forget past trials and your sorrows
There was, but is, no yesterday,
And there may be no tomorrow”

Anonymous

It was all black
Not a hint of light
Black
He was afraid

And on that edge of no hope
Close to suffocation
There he felt the tiny, gentle
Breeze of grace

A glimmer of memory saying
Fall
I will embrace you

So he fell
And he was transformed

From the man he was
To the man whom eternity
Had been waiting for

Diane Findlen Garrow  1/14/11

One little word, yet a word with great power.  If made a daily

exercise it change a day from gloom to glad.

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