JESSIE'S VEGAS

     I am writing again! If nothing else, maybe it will improve my keyboarding skills.  My brain must be set up in an unusual fashion because my keyboarding skill with my left hand is much quicker than with my right hand. I feel like with my right hand I am always reaching more for letters.  I am pretty nervous about a new job I started.  It requires a lot of time on the computer and I am old and not as good with my keyboarding skills as I would like to be.    In twenty seven years of nursing, I have mostly worked for non-profit or university hospitals.  It has taken me a long time to realize the non-profit hospitals are more interested in serving the community at large and even in enacting safe and prudent protocols and procedures. I do not think the way I was trained would ever have been reconciled to the "for profit" mentality of providing healthcare.  So, after almost seven years with a for-profit hospital, I have switched back ...

TO A CHILD Do you know who you are - little child of mine So precious and dear to me? Do you know you're a part of a great design That is vast as eternity? Can you think for a moment how much depends On your holding the "Iron Rod"? Your life is forever - worlds without end Do you know you're a child of God? Do you know where you've been little child of mine? It is hard to recall, I know; Do you ever remember that Home divine With the Father who loves you so? Do you sometimes review how He took your hand And placed it within my own, Saying, "Here is a child from Angel-land-- Not a gift, but a precious loan"?  Ora Pate Stewart 1964 My grandmother Elaine would always tear up when she heard this song.  Her old piano in the basement was a little out of tune, but that did not dim the strength nor the beauty of the song.  It was the only song I ever heard her play and perhaps the only one she knew. Like the beautiful life she lived, however,...