Some days are like...
falling rocks, breaking into pieces. The stones of strength shrink, but keep it's power.
Bridgette Craine
Muskogee, OKlahoma
Some days with grace and grit...
we deal with pain and trauma
Some days I/you...
Some days, you will feel that you made a difference, that a breakthrough happened, that you did it. Other days, you will be broken, from carrying all the pain and suffering of the world. But every day, you will become better. A better clinican, and a better human.
Andrea Teubel
Some days I/you...
Some days you feel your heart break, but knowing it breaks open and not closed, you fill yourself with the compassionate need to care and heal
Sondra J Kahler, RN
Boise, Idaho
Some days I/you...
Some days you stand at the border between life and death and accept life into the world. Other days, you release life back across that narrow divide. It's just one breath wide. Then there are times--endless hours, days, months, even years-- when you struggle and suffer an illness right along with the patient and their family. These times seems interminable, but The Work transforms you there at the river's edge. Your role is to help people complete their important life tasks. Those tasks take as long as they take. You may never understand the task or its purpose, but your flesh, heart and soul merge into a shimmering spirit vessel that renders compassionate service, though Self Care is absolutely required. As you acclimate into the role, you experience the luminosity of people and feel the supporting spirits that accompany them through their struggles and transitions. Holy takes on a whole new meaning. This awareness of the sanctity of life makes being a nurse a privilege.
Abby Molino
Indiana
Some days I/you...
Some days I feel helpless, not being able to give what you, my patient, deserve
Everyday I will try harder, you will go back to your family, health preserved.
Simonette Elgert
Chesterfield, Michigan
Some days I/you...
Some days I will know that in healthcare nurses have the best professional approach to help patients and families cope with diagnosis, experience, frustration and anger.
Lydia wahinye kinyanjui
Nairobi Kenya
Some days I/you...
Somme days you look back at your50 years of giving and you can say yes we made a difference a pray or a hug nursing is always giving and nurturing the soul yours and theirs .
Laura Terriquez-Kasey
Oneonta ,NY
Together we...
Find our inspiration / A color shielding hope / A pony’s mane / Don’t assume or call for help from another hue / In these moments, it’s just blue / A jazz tune / A monsoon of emotions and commotion / Galloping towards the tides / A herd of wild Corolla / Stampeding past a shadow which eyes us / This time the youth will guide us / Towards the blue / And into waves crashing / While we’re asking for salvation and patience for the healers, who wear blue / To protect you / And you, too, will become healthy and reborn in blue / Not pale blue / Like the old guitarist painted by Picasso, but the Moon Blue sung by Wonder / Or the Blue Abstraction by O’Keefe / Offering flowers for the living, and easy breathing / Each blue piece hold true / Lift up for from sorrow / You are a boron blue diamond / Shining from a vault / Or the bioluminescence from Waitomo / Glowing from the labyrinth / So that you can look up (Look Up!) and transform / Into Leoncino / And ride your pony into your YOUniverse.
Maggs Vibo
Midlothian, Virginia
Some days are like...
Some days are like riding on smooth waves
drifitng across a lake that is as clear as glass
Cassie
Kent, Ohio
Together we...
Together we walk across the streets / the cars stop / the light counts down / we ignore the noise / oh so peaceful.
Alex
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit / We are challenged with isolation / Yet we still have ourselves
Ashley K.
Some days are like...
a collection of hurdles / 200 meters long / I can't quite get over / I'm always clipping my ankle
Jonathan
Stow
Some days I/you...
Some days it will come in waves/ Crashing into you smaller then bigger/ All at once/ But you will stand tall/ Providing strength for those who cannot stand against the waves/
Alex
Together we...
Together we can build each other up, helping build brick by brick, laying down a foundation to grow on.
Together we can tear each other down, let each man be on their own. We can tear up the roots and stop any chance of grow.
We get to chose. Together we can rise or together we can fall.
Madison
Kent, Ohio
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit/ I press the reviving earth between my fingers/and dig the smallest of graves to lay/my heart alongside an empty cardinal.
Jaya Avendel
Some days are like...
sink holes, black holes, dying stars
KARYN A GLODEN
NC Mountains
Together we...
Together we share the smallest stories/ flight of starlings/ shifts in mood and weather/ jokes and biscuits / An early butterfly feeds on seaweed/ snowdrops line our path out of winter/ We are clinging like moss/ clinging and growing/ growing like moss/surviving/ the world could swallow us up/ we nibble back slowly/ we share/ deliver the micro news / set seeds / we care by noticing/ we live in the telling/ together we are growing/ a slow green groundswell/ our daily sharing
P Seawards
Bristol
I/You will...
Love the one who loves you, returning the love in full, the love that grows as it is passed from one to the next, and finally the love comes full circle having grown ten fold from its beginning.
Michael Simms
Pittsburgh, PA
Some days are like...
waiting in a dark room / time is illegible / prolonged and then fleeting. Your breath is the only constant in this waiting darkness / as the world weighs down
Kent, OH
Some days are like...
Some days are like puddles. Gleaming yet inconvenient. Playful yet messy.
LM
Ohio
Some days with grace and grit...
the world feels more than unfit. / this, this is where the arms of us come in to capture the moment of some days / some days the world is dark damp, and cruel, but some days our arms are here with grace and grit to uplift the unfit.
Pittsburgh
Some days I/you...
you wish it would end/ the clock ticks by slower and slower/ and you are overcome by your frustrations/ so you wish for tomorrow/ with hope
n/a
n/a
Some days I/you...
I wish I could bare the pain of my brothers and sisters. A small price to pay for my mom to only have one hurting child.
Medina, OH
Some days are like...
Some days are like swimming in a pool of wet concrete ... slowly sinking and losing the strength to swim for the surface ... waiting for someone to throw you a life preserver
Kent, OH
Some days with grace and grit...
wearily trekking forward
Some days are like...
Some days are like mountains, others just hills / no matter what the day, its a battle of wills
Austin Monigold
New Philadelphia, Ohio
Some days are like...
a black and white photo, colorless but a work of art none the less.
Sugarcreek, Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like a broken elevator/ Stuck in place, unable to move/ Left only with the aspiration of going up
anon
anon
Some days I/you...
Some days you will embrace your fullest, truest story ... the one the awkward line breaks, the messy punctuation, the broken narrative threads, the elusive passages that defy description, the story where you will be truly free to live ... ever after.
Stephanie
Warren, Ohio
Together we...
Together we can create a world that everyone feels safe and comfortable to be who they are as a person.
Sara
Ohio
Some days are like...
a never ending wave of darkness that takes over the entire body, mind and soul.
Yet, then there are the days that feel like a kiss from the sun and smile from the moon.
Those are the days that make it all worth while.
Izzy Stewart
Elyria, Ohio
I/You will...
complete the puzzle and find an answer to the questions of loss and hardship
anonymous
Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like the spinning of revolving doors
Always spinning without taking a break to stop
Spencer
Some days are like...
Some days are like a free ride on the back of the town's oldest tortise.
Jordan
Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like bad dreams, I just want them to end and I just want to wake up.
N/a
Cleveland
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit, I remember to pause and that everything is only partly true. On other days, forgetting my practice, my ego lashes out, concealing hurt in my distress signal.
Jennifer Minotti
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Some days I/you...
Some days you'll feel you are needed/you'll be there at just the right moment/to help someone stand/or bandage a wound/
Monica Raymond
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Together we...
Together we could overcome any racial injustices, if we are properly educated on the truth of the human race’s lineage and DNA. To oppress a human based on race is to tear apart your own kind. The late Toni Morrison states in her novel “The Bluest Eye”, Quiet as it’s kept. America can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to the secrets lingering in its core and history.
Girl.ThePoet
Ohio
I/You will...
I know my words can help you or hinder you so I promise to always be positive.
Lisa Meese
Canton, OH
Together we...
Together we can combine our healing power and heal the world. We just have to stand together and put our differences aside.
Lisa Meese
Canton,OH
Some days I/you...
You can change lives with your smile.
You can change lives with your love.
You can change lives with your faith.
You can change lives with your words.
So hold your head up , you got this ❤️
Lisa Meese
Canton, OH
Some days I/you...
Someday I will look back and say. “So that is why I went through what I did, so I’d be prepared for what is in front of me now.”
Lisa Meese
Canton, OH
Some days I/you...
Some days are like a walk in the park, other days are like being sucked up in a tornado and being dropped into chaos.
Lisa Meese
Canton, OH
Together we...
huddle in grace so we may spread love all over this place!
Tina M Pierce
Cleveland, Ohio
I/You will...
I will stand in front of you when the wolves come charging. You will still look at me with disgust at the monster you created. I will stand in the shadows waiting for the next time you cry for me.
Martin Gonzalez
Hudson, Ohio
Some days with grace and grit...
I push forward to show each individual love that serves within that gives...
Tina M Pierce
Cleveland, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Some days I feel like I can’t do this, it is so hard. But I care too much not to.
Lisa
Canton,OH
Some days I/you...
Some days I wake up and ask when the war is over. Always remembering the smell of war. Ghosts walk beside me asking me when the war will be over. When can we come home?
Martin Gonzalez
Hudson, Ohio
Some days with grace and grit...
, mostly grit, I plow through the tasks set before me
anonymous
OH
Together we...
Together we sat / the stillness of the of the room / the eye of the hurricane surrounding us / a sacred moment as both worlds connect / the moment is fleeting / we continue on separate paths / separate but together / we hope for the future
Lindsay
Chicago
Together we...
we can change the world, one patient at a time. I'm looking forward to that day when all will have a voice and peace will be in all our hearts and soar throughout the land.
Some days with grace and grit...
I know I'll pick myself up, brush off the dirt and the blood, and walk tall forward lighting a way toward healing.
Kim Frier
Columbus, OH
Some days I/you...
wish to cure all that ails us--to take away the suffering and pain, to ease the burden, to create safe passage, to carry the weight of the world/Other days, I just want to hide, to be tucked away, to be relieved of this duty, this calling, this path that I've chosen for myself/But still I come back--to seek that cure, to relieve that suffering, to lift that burden, to create that safe passage, to carry that weight.
Brittany Waterman
Columbus, Ohio
Together we...
Together we will wrap our patients in blanket of caring
Jillian
Columbus
I/You will...
falter/ and then return to our work/ serving others brings purpose/ and brings spiritual meaning to life.
Daniel
Bemidji, MN
Some days I/you...
I fear losing my balance and falling forward dragging all near me along the chasm of emptiness I feel.
Kim Frier
Columbus, OH
Some days are like...
are like a breath of fresh air, an abrupt weightlessness
Chris H
Salem, Ohio
Together we...
Together we work to find calm, peace, comfort in the chaos. Together we blur boundaries when a patient needs simple kindness and even love we work... Together
Skip Radwany
Akron
Together we...
Together we will create a future for our children that will welcome them with open arms.
Taylor
Columbus, OH
I/You will...
discover joy in places that surprise you
Bethany Lockwood
North Canton, OH
Together we...
Together we laughed and cried. We celebrated and problem solved and scoffed at the scans, the tests...and shook our fists at the skies. Now you are gone and I am left on the shore with memories of your smile, your fierocity in the face of unrelenting disease. And you are at peace, simply - part of the universal whole.
Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio
Columbus, Ohio
Some days with grace and grit...
seemingly on vacation / I stand - or sit - but probably lean and wonder at what is before me / I silently swear and then resolutely step out into the muck / to help
Zach Rossfeld
Columbus, OH
Some days are like...
Some days are like falling from the sky and waiting for the ground to break it/
Some days are like waiting for someone to grab on to you before you fall/
Some days are like seeing a rope and remembering you can hold on and pick yourself up.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Some days are like...
treading water, my feet sputtering against the weight, barely able to keep me afloat. Some days are like floating, weightlessly, amid the lofty dreams and hopes and wishes - few substantial, but able to carry me.
Sarah
Columbus, OH
Some days are like...
never knowing where the line of darkness begins and our light with in us ends. As we approach this experience thru others we are not sure how to feel before we leave them.
Columbus Ohio
Some days are like...
a whirlwind blowing through a field of grass
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit I balance on one foot, reach out to grab a hand, and hope I don't fall.
Columbus OH
Together we...
will heal the world with our love and patience.
Kim Frier
Columbus, OH
Some days are like...
Are like rays of sunshine while others are like hurricanes and tornadoes. But through it all the rainbow appears. Then you finally know you are human and whole.
Deborah Russell
Centerburg, Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like a fall walk/taking in the colors of the trees/some days are like a mountain hike/where you never reach the top/but then/ some days are a cool breeze/allowing breath to come easily
Jess
OH
Some days I/you...
I love my work and the people that I serve. Sometimes I'm sad for them when I don't have a cure.
Together we...
can reach out to listen and heal the people we touch, then share the experience and refresh each other... Resilience together will be key to our success!
Frank D Ferris
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Some days with grace and grit...
you will commit again in hidden and quiet ways with the heart of a lion and of a lamb to the calling you have received
nicole
columbus, ohio
Some days I/you...
Somedays patients are gift
Somedays they cure me
Somedays to alldays
I grow I embrace I find
God's honor in eyes searching answers
Somedays answers come
Somedays alldays of care
brings me home.
Lynne G
Plymouth, Michigan
Some days with grace and grit...
With grace and blessings we celebrate what we do and with grit, perseverance and eyes forward, we keep looking for the hope of the future.
Mary K. Anthony
Solon, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Some day we will see/light at the end of the tunnel/and imagine emerging into spaces we share/hands we can clasp./Laughter will bubble/brokenness will heal/and we will give thanks/to you who brought us here.
Margo Waring
Juneau, Alaska
Some days I/you...
Some days I can see/myself walking with my mother/who is also walking but/dead since Wednesday and I go/along with her and the whole/scene, the feeling of being/together, able to hold onto her/hand which still takes/mine to caretake and/to replace the gerber/daisies I dropped to the floor when/I got the call/safe at home not.
Nancy Dzina
Delta, CO
Some days I/you...
think of moving forward, like a hummingbird / or a barnacle on a whale, or a propeller deep under water / think of rain moving in sheets / and the stillness after
Mistee St Clair
Juneau, Ak
Some days are like...
Some days are like swimming against the current / Some days the current takes me, and I let it / Spirit, either way, buoy me up / Help me keep my head and hold my breath
Wendy Brooker
Wasilla, Alaska
Together we...
Together we will raise our days
Dawn Jensen Nobile
Wenatchee WA
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit/
I get up and face the day with grace/
Or I get up and feel the grit/
Of scrolling past the negative/
Some days it is best to stay the course/
And live the life you know is right/
While others twist in the breeze/
Of the latest ill wind that rises.
Susan
Wasilla, AK
Some days I/you...
Some days you will want to give up — / you will think, "this isn't worth it" — / but when someone says "thank you," / you'll remember your purpose.
Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum
Wasilla, AK
Together we...
Together when we can take a pause to reflect, we wonder what what type of unexpected beauty may emerge from the agony of these ashes?
Linda Vance
Benson, AZ
Some days I/you...
Have something to learn and am grateful for that lesson.
Scott M
Sierra Vista, AZ
Some days are like...
moving through the world without skin/ so tender, raw, and upending/ the scrape in the balm invites... sinking in, sinking in, sinking in
Rose
Olympia, WA USA
Some days I/you...
remember, at least for a second, how grateful the whole world is for all you are giving at this moment in our collective journey.
Libby
Anchorage, Alaska
Some days I/you...
Some days I feel Sorrow,
For all that are at Work,
But in the Morrow,
Though we may go through Hork,
I know I will find something Better.
Kyle Page
Albany, OR, US
Some days I/you...
Some days you will find that / just getting out bed will be a chore. / But the lives you touch / will make it all worth it.
Lynsey M.
WA, USA
Together we...
This pandemic
We are
In today
Leaves us
Confused
And not always ok
Tied up in knots
From all the confusion
We look around
Trying to find
Comfort
tina neumann
Oro Valley, Az
I/You will...
You will not know all the lyrics
but you will sing the songs loudly
Jamee Rothmeier
Soldotna, Alaska
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit we climb out of the pit of isolation toward the light of community.
Kathy Sue Justus
Anchorage, AK
Some days are like...
Some days are like a rose
beautiful and sweetly scented
the kindness of a stranger
waters the garden
And though thorns remain
they do not deter the gardener
all must be kept alive
beauty will prevail
Kim Schooley
East Wenatchee, WA
Some days are like...
minutes, hours, weeks, and years rolled into one uncertain day.
Dana Hansen
Hudson, OH
Some days I/you...
Have a heart so full it’s going to explode/ while other days I have a heart so hurt it could break/ nursing is unpredictable/ but A nurses Love is unconditional
Michaela Bann
Erie, PA
Some days I/you...
some days the sun is still a great warmth ... the sun is still warming us ... how strange, even in this pit ... how strange and still constant the joy of our skin
Cameron Gorman
Aurora, Ohio
I/You will...
You will appreciate that
It’s with the blessing of the Doctor and Nurse ...
Fighting in the front to get rid of Covid 19 curse...
Clouds of mercy may shower their serene rain...
To whoever risk their lives to relief the agony and pain...
Enaam Mujallid
Saudi Arabia
I/You will...
You will find
In the Age of the Quarantine...
A woman can become her family’s Queen...
Her kindness lets all members convene...
To their spirits, she provides the needed vaccine...
When the world turns insane...
Fear or fight penetrate the brain...
A woman is the family’s rush of adrenaline!...
She is the genuine cure and medicine!...
🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃
Enaam Mujallid
Saudi Arabia
I/You will...
always be there
Carmen
San Luis
Some days with grace and grit...
I set my jaw into a smile
Some days with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit I hear the voice of artists/their words and actions bring joy and color/their situations bring the reality of "no."/ No gallery openings, no theatre performances/ no concerts, no dancing./Transitions from creating and selling,/to volunteering and giving./Complications from scarcity of marketing, money, and sales./Interruptions in service - not the kind given away,/but the disruption caused by "no."/No electricity, no family gatherings,/no wifi, no assurances./ Some days with grace and grit I hear the voice of arts lovers,/their words and actions show appreciation./Generosity: Tickets from cancelled performances, donated./Forward thinking: Subscriptions renewed without the promise of theatre or concert seasons to come./Big hearts: Donations given, organizations afloat./ Some days with grace and grit I see through the light,/two halves of the whole./ The darkness of some days/that will lead to the light of tomorrow,/where art and life converge again.
Donna
Ohio
Together we...
Together we are a handful of notes to a collective symphony
Gabz Ciofani
Cleveland, OH
Some days I/you...
Some days the globe will witness the remarkable contribution
Some days you will be rewarded for the beautiful motions
Some days the unforgettable work will be engraved in the body of the nations
Some days no one will be able to live without your inspiration
Some days people will realize the white angles are the gifts from the Creation
Some days each finger will be a shining star in the globalization
Some days everyone will greet you in the form of admiration
Some days generations will wish your place for their occupation
Some days hospitals and all centers will have you under their consideration
Some days and everyday you will have a moral obligation to guard your patients
Dr. Haifaa Faqeih
Saudi Arabia
Some days with grace and grit...
You will face the demons and wonder why they never go away, others day you will feel the presence of angels and know things will get better.
Barbara Broome
Kent, OH
Some days with grace and grit...
I stare at the sad sky.
It is bringing darkness,
I wish the clouds could lose their water,
And bring the sunshine that will heal.
Suzanne
Warren
Some days are like...
Are like a season of stillness. We wait in silence and suspended animation for the world to resume, for normal to envelope us again, for a plague to pass over us. Some days we open our eyes and consecrate ourselves to the sacred work of reimagining the world.
Stephanie Danes Smith
Warren, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Some days seem all the same
An endless cycle of news
A constant reminder of pain
Some days we hold onto hope
Those beautiful visions of angels dressed in white
Men and women working tirelessly
Courageous heroes ready for an enormous fight
Some days seem all the same
An endless cycle of news
A constant reminder of pain
Terry Clarke
Chantilly, Virginia
Some days I/you...
Some days you will hold your tears and silent screams until the dark protects you, frees you from the sadness and pain that surrounds your caring and determined heart.
Niles, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Some days I feel put together and ready to take on the obligations put my way. Other days I feel nervous and less prepared. Support from my colleagues and family keeps me going. Peaceful talks with my patients remind me that my work matters. It is a time of being confused and careful, but I know that life continues.
Jillian Schmidt
PITTSBURGH, PA
Together we...
Together we will face our fears/Knowing we have each other, no matter what./And knowing this too shall pass.
Danielle Sarver Coombs
Hudson, OH
Some days are like...
a rock in a stream, disturbing the rushing current.
Kat
Vinton, Virginia
Some days are like...
are like the weather./
They open you up,/ they wear you down,/ but still you respond/ with open eyes and heart.
Larry
Huron
Some days I/you...
Some days I just don’t.
Someone or something else does.
And it’s okay
Because that’s how I learn
That I can.
Marla McNabb
Coventry Township, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Somedays I feel like musicians and care givers worldwide are TANGLED UP IN BLUE with this SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE but glad to have SHELTER FORM THE STORM and a BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER from the IDIOT WIND. Covid-19, like a HURRICANE, has me in my basement studio FAKING IT for an open mic playing the SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES for my dog CECILIA. But life is good stay tuned.
Don Lee
Stow, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Some days we feel we can’t go on
And then we do anyway
Because we love the person for whom we care.
Daughter of ours, we taught you well
Your heart beats free and you care for so many.
Being a nurse means you put them first and their care and their future health is better for it.
Judy Auer Shaw
Kent, Ohio
Together we...
will truly believe the call
That all means ALL.
C.Law
Detroit
Together we...
can speak across the silent spaces and witness one another's days
Shannon E. French
Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like a never ending loop of necessity. Awakening, breathing, consuming, and slumber.
Brook Wyers
Ravenna, Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like the ocean / the current never ends and the days are long and blue
Caitie
Kent, Ohio
Some days I/you...
Some days you want to tuck a cloud beneath your bed/
You want to drink all the rain, stay up at night listening to a storm raging/
And a tornado stepping heavily./
You want to wrap the world in a blanket and force it to sleep/
But then there are days when you want to have/
more than one sun and more than one moon/
So you could keep one or two safely for the darker days.
Nisreen Yamany
Some days are like...
Some days are like feeling trapped in a box, hoping for someone to open it and, for once, be surprised to see you and all that you contain.
Isaiah Hunt
Cleveland
Some days are like...
Some days are like a cloud full of rain, heavy just above my head.
David
Kent
Some days are like...
the invisible tattoos on my forearms, the ideas not forgotten but un-inked// this life run by disease, refuses to run away// just in circles around the stupid track// and I'll never have a circle in ink
Rebecca Cybulski
Geneva, OH
Some days are like...
Some days are like frostbite;
Hard burning painful.
Brave them,
Warmth will come soon.
Other days will pour themselves out in warm cups of coffee.
Or in smiley tribes of bright daffodils standing erect at your doorstep
Ready to greet you and let you know how bright the day will be
With you ..
For you … !
Nisreen Yamany
Saudi Arabia
Some days are like...
the first frost of winter
Megan Smith
Ohio
Some days are like...
sand slipping through your fingers.
Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like molasis slow and hard but without these days you can't taste the sweetness
Lucinda McCall
Greenwhich Connecticut
Some days are like...
Some days are like
the shy kiss of February on my cheeks
my foggy breath on the window
pillow fluff bobbing along the horizon
and a warm hug from the fire
Stella Maymin
Greenwich, CT
Remember/Find...
Remember the days of hardship, it makes the victory so much sweeter