day two of our return to school
we all find comfort in our own way
a donkey, a pillow, a bus, a dragon
each makes all the difference to someone.
—
“cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”
-hippocrates
Sep19
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I never leave home without my dragon! Loved the quote!
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that’s a good move, brad –
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I’ve been holding onto “Phillip” the penguin lately…
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❤
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Very sweet. Hopefully our kids can go back to school next term too.
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Exactly
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And they’re off enjoying and having fun
and feeling more at home …….while
security “blankets” are safely set aside!
Have a restful week end!!!!
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Exactly! Thanks )
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Those small things mean the world to some, bringing comfort and calm. Thank goodness!!
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they absolutely do
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Your quotation at the end strikes me as coming from our own times rather than from Greece more than 2000 years ago. The article in The British Journal of General Practice at
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784544/
notes a similar saying: ‘To cure sometimes, to relieve often, and to comfort always.’ The article says that that version has been “cited as a 15th century folk saying…” and is “the rallying cry of the palliative care profession. Hippocrates might comment, ‘I wish I’d said that’.”
My intuition is that this is yet another example of a familiar phenomenon: someone in our own times attributes a sentiment to someone famous (in this case Hippocrates, “the father of medicine”) to make the sentiment seem authoritative and therefore worthy of being followed.
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interesting!
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Hi Beth. My kids always had things like that and I still have a few of my own 😉 Good stuff!
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i think we all do, important things for coping with life
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It’s so great to have the comforts away from home, Beth!
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It’s so important
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I don’t think that ever changes, no matter how old we are.
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Absolutely not
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I’ve had a goofy kangaroo on my truck’s dashboard for years. He looks for trouble and keeps me safe. Also, he’s a decent conversationalist.
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There you go –
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Looks like a great comfort place to me!
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I hope it to be
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These are so sweet! Each child had their own favorite thing giving them comfort
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Right ❤️
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That’s lovely. It is wonderful when each child is granted their own way of adjusting.
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They should be allowed the same respect as other bigger humans
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I absolutely agree and love that this is happening!
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clearly shows that it’s the small, simple things that matter in life…
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it really all comes down to that
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yes all in the small things.
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so sweet, we all have our small things that comfort us, no matter the age!
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we certainly do –
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Awww, that’s so sweeeet my friend Beth🤗😘💝
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thank you –
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Always warm welcome Beth🤗💝
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I love this, Beth. Makes perfect sense to me!
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We all need a bit of comfort
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Yup!
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Oh the Kinders being back in your world brings me comfort. 🙂
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A bit of balance has been restored
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I still remember Linus and his blanket 🙂 as adults we find comfort in different things, not always good for us 🙂
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that is so true
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Yes! So many ways to be soothed! Small comforts!
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exactly!
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