Nursing was always supposed to be plan B. But since I became an RN fourteen years ago, it’s always been plan A. You can’t work as a nurse and not have so much of your life become about that.
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At a crossroads: Where do I go from here?
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New poem, “Holding Faith”
I’ve been thinking about how everything in existence has an opposite, and how I believe that must include the larger, cosmic, and spiritual forces at work all around us.
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New poem, “Strange and Lovely”
Although it’s title could well describe the sudden warm spell we’re having in upstate New York, this poem is about sometimes finding beauty and a sense of kinship where you least expect it.
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New poem, “Sweet Regard”
A short tribute to all the life we share this planet with...
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New poem, “Boundless”
Thinking about how often the different parts of myself and my life can seem to contradict each other, yet there’s room for everything to grow.
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New Poem, “The Why”
Contemplating the larger meaning of things. The latest installment of my mini-poems on Instagram. Follow me at #jacqlynthorne.
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE: Go in grace
I taste it in my voice, running like a river, mingling with others... flowing in and out, filling up the endless sky...
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Of Gods and Small Things
I see the divine close at hand every day, and have never felt the need to find it in a church or give it a name of any kind.
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FRESH OFF THE PAGE: To catch the light
there is only that instant... when it returns... and I know such warmth again... when understanding dawns.
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Monarch Season: Feeling Reborn
They have helped me wake up, and come back to myself again.
