“You know what everybody needs? … Everybody needs to be understood.” Sherwin Nuland, MD, surgeon, author, bioethicist

“I can't do this all on my own. No, I know, I'm no Superman.”  Lazlo Bane (“Scrubs” theme song)

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”   George Bernard Shaw

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”   Charles Schaefer, PhD

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.” Albert Schweitzer, MD

‘There is nothing permanent except change.” Heraclitus

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for …” Sir John Lubbock

“Tell me where it hurts.” My Mother

“Validation is an essential component of emotional PPE.”    Susan Song, MD, MPH, PhD

“I need your help …” Not said by enough of us often enough

“Whatever you add on to ‘I am’ will be added on to you.”

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”  Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

“It’s Halftime for 2020!” said June 30th

“It’s time to open up!” Many Impatient Souls

“For the times they are a-changin’.” Bob Dylan

“It lets them know we’re in this together, and we’re here for each other.” Grandpa G

“One year from now, what will be the story you tell?” Bumper Sticker

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." Joseph Campbell

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl, MD

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Traditional proverb attributed to many