Some days are like...
Some days are like
A thunderstorm, growing, swirling, off in the distance until – crash – it’s here.
Some days are like
A tiny caterpillar hiding under the leaf he was born on, afraid, frozen in his tracks, not knowing that on another day, he will burst forth with beautiful wings to carry him off.
Some days are like
The sun drifting through shards of colored glass, tough but lovely.
Jan Rader
Kent
Some days are like...
Some days are like
A thunderstorm, growing, swirling, off in the distance until – crash – it’s here.
Some days are like
A tiny caterpillar hiding under the leaf he was born on, afraid, frozen in his tracks, not knowing that on another day, he will burst forth with beautiful wings to carry him off.
Some days are like
The sun drifting through shards of colored glass, tough but lovely.
Jan Rader
Kent
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
Some days you'll break into tears/
while the National Anthem/
plays in the background/
and you'll have to call the crisis line again/
Some days you'll listen to strangers ask/
through a phone line/
if you're anywhere near traffic/
Some days you'll enter the hospital/
convinced you're dying/
have nurses take your blood pressure/
and tell you to breathe
But one day you'll be able to take off your mask/
and breathe like normal/
and hold your mother/
and finally thank the nurse/
who handed you a tissue/
and wiped your eyes when you couldn't
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Some days I/you...
Some days you'll break into tears/
while the National Anthem/
plays in the background/
and you'll have to call the crisis line again/
Some days you'll listen to strangers ask/
through a phone line/
if you're anywhere near traffic/
Some days you'll enter the hospital/
convinced you're dying/
have nurses take your blood pressure/
and tell you to breathe
But one day you'll be able to take off your mask/
and breathe like normal/
and hold your mother/
and finally thank the nurse/
who handed you a tissue/
and wiped your eyes when you couldn't
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Some days I/you...
wish that you anti-vaccer's were less hypocritical
loudly lambasting medical people who try their best in a pandemic where no one has the all the right answers
but when you break your foot
or get cancer
or your child gets injured
you run to them
seeking solace and healing
Joanne Feenstra
Slocan, BC, Canada
Some days I/you...
wish that you anti-vaccer's were less hypocritical
loudly lambasting medical people who try their best in a pandemic where no one has the all the right answers
but when you break your foot
or get cancer
or your child gets injured
you run to them
seeking solace and healing
Joanne Feenstra
Slocan, BC, Canada
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Together we...
Break bread, laugh til throats are dry/ tears of joy fall down our faces/ in flight
Together we...
Break bread, laugh til throats are dry/ tears of joy fall down our faces/ in flight
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
Forget a new day has started, keep on yesterday’s clothes, and wash the same dishes again
Sadie Shorr-Parks
Shepherdstown
Some days I/you...
Forget a new day has started, keep on yesterday’s clothes, and wash the same dishes again
Sadie Shorr-Parks
Shepherdstown
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
Hold half your palm
Jade
NYC
Some days I/you...
Hold half your palm
Jade
NYC
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
I want you to break the glass you witness on the lake to breakthrough the demons real and imagined.
Chuck
Coates I’ll, pa.
Some days I/you...
I want you to break the glass you witness on the lake to breakthrough the demons real and imagined.
Chuck
Coates I’ll, pa.
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
Some days, the leaping water lilies will grow/ and other days, the green circle will become blue./ Under water, there is no light,/ no plant to live but there is water/
and there is room to reach the surface.
Rahil Najafabadi
New York City
Some days I/you...
Some days, the leaping water lilies will grow/ and other days, the green circle will become blue./ Under water, there is no light,/ no plant to live but there is water/
and there is room to reach the surface.
Rahil Najafabadi
New York City
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
Some days you will hulk out / in red cheeks, your fists tight / like bunches— your hands are bouquets / give out your anger, your voice / a stem for me to listen to; / when Hulk hulks, he branches / back into Bruce Banner.
Lissa Batista
Miami, Florida
Some days I/you...
Some days you will hulk out / in red cheeks, your fists tight / like bunches— your hands are bouquets / give out your anger, your voice / a stem for me to listen to; / when Hulk hulks, he branches / back into Bruce Banner.
Lissa Batista
Miami, Florida
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
Some days your patient cries…they want to go home. You listen, and sympathize. You encourage their spirit, then you walk away and ball your eyes out. You need encouragement too.
Victoria Huggins Peurifoy
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Some days I/you...
Some days your patient cries…they want to go home. You listen, and sympathize. You encourage their spirit, then you walk away and ball your eyes out. You need encouragement too.
Victoria Huggins Peurifoy
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Some Days
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Some days are like...
a flowing stream of fresh water bringing hope and life to a dry and barren land.
Becca
MN
Some days are like...
a flowing stream of fresh water bringing hope and life to a dry and barren land.
Becca
MN
Some Days
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Some days I/you...
wish I could take my patient’s loneliness away.
Becca
Some days I/you...
wish I could take my patient’s loneliness away.
Becca
Some Days
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Together we...
Together we will struggle through this pandemic and come out much stronger and wiser nurses.
Lisa Kotula
Michigan
Together we...
Together we will struggle through this pandemic and come out much stronger and wiser nurses.
Lisa Kotula
Michigan
Some Days
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Together we...
make a difference even on the tough days. Even on the days when we think all we did was make mistakes. Stepping up to help a co-worker with a task because they are over burdened, stopping what you are doing to just listen to someones story, or just offer a smile as encouragement. Together we are a team and we make a difference. To each other, our patients, and our families.
DeAnna King
Roseville, CA
Together we...
make a difference even on the tough days. Even on the days when we think all we did was make mistakes. Stepping up to help a co-worker with a task because they are over burdened, stopping what you are doing to just listen to someones story, or just offer a smile as encouragement. Together we are a team and we make a difference. To each other, our patients, and our families.
DeAnna King
Roseville, CA
Some Days
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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 are like...
falling rocks, breaking into pieces. The stones of strength shrink, but keep it's power.
Bridgette Craine
Muskogee, OKlahoma
Some Days
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Some days with grace and grit...
we deal with pain and trauma
Some days with grace and grit...
we deal with pain and trauma
Some Days
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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...
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
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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
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
Some Days
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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
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
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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
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
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Together we...
Together we walk across the streets / the cars stop / the light counts down / we ignore the noise / oh so peaceful.
Alex
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
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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 with grace and grit...
Some days with grace and grit / We are challenged with isolation / Yet we still have ourselves
Ashley K.
Some Days
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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 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
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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
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
Some Days
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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
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
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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 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
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Some days are like...
sink holes, black holes, dying stars
KARYN A GLODEN
NC Mountains
Some days are like...
sink holes, black holes, dying stars
KARYN A GLODEN
NC Mountains
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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
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
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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
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
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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...
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
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Some days are like...
Some days are like puddles. Gleaming yet inconvenient. Playful yet messy.
LM
Ohio
Some days are like...
Some days are like puddles. Gleaming yet inconvenient. Playful yet messy.
LM
Ohio
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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 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
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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...
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
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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 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
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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 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
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Some days with grace and grit...
wearily trekking forward
Some days with grace and grit...
wearily trekking forward
Some Days
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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...
Some days are like mountains, others just hills / no matter what the day, its a battle of wills
Austin Monigold
New Philadelphia, Ohio
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Some days are like...
a black and white photo, colorless but a work of art none the less.
Sugarcreek, Ohio
Some days are like...
a black and white photo, colorless but a work of art none the less.
Sugarcreek, Ohio
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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 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
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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
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
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Together we...
Together we can create a world that everyone feels safe and comfortable to be who they are as a person.
Sara
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
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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
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
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I/You will...
complete the puzzle and find an answer to the questions of loss and hardship
anonymous
Ohio
I/You will...
complete the puzzle and find an answer to the questions of loss and hardship
anonymous
Ohio
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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 the spinning of revolving doors
Always spinning without taking a break to stop
Spencer
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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 a free ride on the back of the town's oldest tortise.
Jordan
Ohio
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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 are like...
Some days are like bad dreams, I just want them to end and I just want to wake up.
N/a
Cleveland
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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 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
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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
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
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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
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
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I/You will...
I know my words can help you or hinder you so I promise to always be positive.
Lisa Meese
Canton, OH
I/You will...
I know my words can help you or hinder you so I promise to always be positive.
Lisa Meese
Canton, OH
Some Days
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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
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
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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
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
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Together we...
huddle in grace so we may spread love all over this place!
Tina M Pierce
Cleveland, Ohio
Together we...
huddle in grace so we may spread love all over this place!
Tina M Pierce
Cleveland, Ohio
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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
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
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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 with grace and grit...
I push forward to show each individual love that serves within that gives...
Tina M Pierce
Cleveland, Ohio
Some Days
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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 feel like I can’t do this, it is so hard. But I care too much not to.
Lisa
Canton,OH
Some Days
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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 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
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Some days with grace and grit...
, mostly grit, I plow through the tasks set before me
anonymous
OH
Some days with grace and grit...
, mostly grit, I plow through the tasks set before me
anonymous
OH
Some Days
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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...
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
Some Days
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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.
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
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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 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
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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
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
Some Days
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Together we...
Together we will wrap our patients in blanket of caring
Jillian
Columbus
Together we...
Together we will wrap our patients in blanket of caring
Jillian
Columbus
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I/You will...
falter/ and then return to our work/ serving others brings purpose/ and brings spiritual meaning to life.
Daniel
Bemidji, MN
I/You will...
falter/ and then return to our work/ serving others brings purpose/ and brings spiritual meaning to life.
Daniel
Bemidji, MN
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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 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
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Some days are like...
are like a breath of fresh air, an abrupt weightlessness
Chris H
Salem, Ohio
Some days are like...
are like a breath of fresh air, an abrupt weightlessness
Chris H
Salem, Ohio
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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 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
Some Days
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Together we...
Together we will create a future for our children that will welcome them with open arms.
Taylor
Columbus, OH
Together we...
Together we will create a future for our children that will welcome them with open arms.
Taylor
Columbus, OH
Some Days
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I/You will...
discover joy in places that surprise you
Bethany Lockwood
North Canton, OH
I/You will...
discover joy in places that surprise you
Bethany Lockwood
North Canton, OH
Some Days
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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
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
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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 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
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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...
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
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Some days are like...
a whirlwind blowing through a field of grass
Some days are like...
a whirlwind blowing through a field of grass
Some Days
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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
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
Some Days
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Together we...
will heal the world with our love and patience.
Kim Frier
Columbus, OH
Together we...
will heal the world with our love and patience.
Kim Frier
Columbus, OH
Some Days
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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...
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
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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 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
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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.
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.
Some Days
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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
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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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...
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
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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 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
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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
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
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Together we...
Together we will raise our days
Dawn Jensen Nobile
Wenatchee WA
Together we...
Together we will raise our days
Dawn Jensen Nobile
Wenatchee WA
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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 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
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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
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
Some Days
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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
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
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Some days I/you...
Have something to learn and am grateful for that lesson.
Scott M
Sierra Vista, AZ
Some days I/you...
Have something to learn and am grateful for that lesson.
Scott M
Sierra Vista, AZ
Some Days
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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 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
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