1. Importance of Self-care in Prevention of Change Fatigue and Compassion Fatigue Michelle M. Enos, RN-MSN

2. i wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. for the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. for the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. but, mainly, i wish you could have been there.

4. there are times i think I’m doing things on principle, but mostly i just do what feels good. but that’s a principle, too.

6. these are little scraps of magic & when you paste them together you get a memory of something fine & strong. she said. sometimes it takes till you’re a lot older to see it though.

7. i try to use unconditional love in small amounts, she said, so people really appreciate it. the rest of the time i just try not to yell.

8. i do much better as a goddess, she said, since my secretarial skills have always been limited.

9. i used to be pretty clear on what was real & what i made up, but with everything going on in the world, none of that seems to matter, so i decided to talk less & smile to myself more, so as not to add to the general confusion.

10. someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, what have you done with your life? & though there are many moments i think i will remember, in the end, i will be proud to say, i was one of us.

12. i like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. pay no attention to boundaries.

13. she waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn’t wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn’t remember having a better time in her life.

15. my grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple-minded. it’s taken me almost my whole life to understand what she meant.

16. most people don’t know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don’t get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life

18. he told me that once he forgot himself & his heart opened up like a door with a loose latch & everything fell out & he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but finally he gave up & left it there in a pile & loved everything equally.

19. she said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.

20. make sure you got clean underwear, she always said, in case you get in an accident & i always figured that’d be the least of my worries, but now i’m older & i see there’s a lot you can’t control & some you can control & clean underwear is one of those you can.

21. in my dream, the angel shrugged & said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination & then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.