Butterflies in my brain...

The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame. The first one went closer and said:I know about love. The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said:I know how love's fire can burn. The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame and was consumed. He alone knows what true love is. ~Rumi

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Florence “SeeSee” Rigney, a registered nurse working at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital in Washington, has been faithfully helping patients for 69 years. On May 8, 2015, she celebrated her 90th birthday.

Her fellow nurses and hospital staff greeted Rigney with birthday wishes and a letter of congratulations from Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and as she thanked them for the well wishes, she could hardly hold back tears. Inslee recognized her as the country’s oldest working nurse.

“You are all wonderful,” she said. “I know I’m a pain in the you-know-what!” [via]

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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

Yasmin Mogahed

Originally found on: beautifulpatienceforever

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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha -  the doctor credited with discovering how bad the lead poisoning had actually gotten with the children of Flint, Michigan.

from CNN

At first, the state publicly denounced her work, saying she was causing near hysteria. They spent a week attacking her before reversing their narrative and admitting she was right. “Their information wasn’t flawed. They had the data, but they were being told by the DEQ [Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the government agency that ultimately failed this city and its people from the beginning] that there wasn’t a problem, they just dismissed it,” said Hanna-Attisha and confirmed by the state-appointed task force. “There was almost like blinders on,” she added. CNN contacted DEQ’s former director, Dan Wyant, who made the decision and later resigned over the issue. He did not respond.

“If you were to put something in a population to keep them down for generation and generations to come, it would be lead. It’s a well-known, potent neurotoxin. There’s tons of evidence on what lead does to a child, and it is one of the most damning things that you can do to a population. It drops your IQ, it affects your behavior, it’s been linked to criminality, it has multigenerational impacts. There is no safe level of lead in a child.” - Hanna-Attisha

~ 40% of Flint’s residents are below the poverty rate. 

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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

Yasmin Mogahed

Originally found on: beautifulpatienceforever

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“I didn’t enjoy life very much because I was always sacrificing for the future. My whole life was about studying and working. I worked so many jobs. I went to college. I got my MBA. I didn’t travel very much. I didn’t get married. I didn’t have kids. All I wanted to do was feel secure. But I’ve had bad health problems my entire life. So I haven’t been able to save. And two weeks ago I lost my job. The job market is brutal when you’re my age. People don’t think you can learn new things. I can’t even get work as a clerk because they think I’m overqualified. I have no money now. I can barely afford food and transportation. I’ve spent my whole life sacrificing—just to one day feel secure. But it seems like it was all for nothing. And I have no idea what to do.” (São Paulo, Brazil)

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“My husband is ninety-two and he keeps trying to make love to me. I have to swat him away. I had seventeen kids already. That’s all in the past. Whenever he gets out of the shower, he starts singing this song about a woman with long hair that he wants to kiss. He says the song is about me. I tell him: ‘Nope! Not me.’” (Lençóis, Brazil)