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Mission iPod
My job is so strange and wonderful. The other day, our boss called us and said a social worker was requesting an iPod for a preteen in the PICU at the other hospital. His iPod wasn’t holding a charge and he was going through a lot of pain, and the social worker was hoping to…
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Take an evening,
love your anxieties. Thank them for trying to protect you. Write them songs. Let them know you aren’t fighting anymore. Listen deeply, and then love them some more. I am finally letting out the breath of the last five days.
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lost-onesss: this is the scariest thing i’ve ever read Just another reminder, for me, that hell exists most powerfully in our heads. There are infinite people you could become. You are becoming this way for a reason. Love your quirky, irregular path and don’t let fear push you towards someone else’s.
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(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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To Rest
The video I’m about to post is dedicated to a young life we lost last week. He always said yes to music, even on the days where he couldn’t pick up a shaker, when the most he could give us was a tiny smile. He was 3 years old. I so loved singing to you,…
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”It’s such an enormous thing, to walk and to listen.” (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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These Funny Limbs
I stood in the doorway and asked him how he was doing. He said, “I think a part of me just died.” How is it that teenagers are so dramatic and so honest at the same time? “Why?” I asked. It could have been anything. Whatever it was that brought him back to the hospital…
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Gratitude
for people who genuinely love what they do – who open a restaurant to make magic instead of money, who know the names/interests/moods/diagnoses of kids that pass through the hospital every week, who step up to each day without complaining about its challenges and with respect for every piece of their work. . for spaces…
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Small acts of faith
It seems to me that the only way I want to live is in faith. Faith outside of all religious contexts, in the most basic sense of the word, simply trusting that all of these small, pointless things we do are in fact building something larger. Every artist knows this – spending the hours creating…
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(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)