Nurses

So many good things for so many distraught beings, just think! sweet kindly voices laced with true concern; diplomatic firmness tempered with caring; deft ministering hands more Christian than Durer’s; supple, beautiful arms God-fashioned to support and comfort babes, women, sorely stricken strong men; constant and discreet watchfulness calmly efficient in crisis – mayhap even at that moment when man is at his furthest point in space near the point of NO RETURN. What price then a nurse’s reassuring words and smile? Their true worth could be – a new Lease ON LIFE!

25.2.1987