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Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help. ~ Martin Luther King III

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ by Indira Gandhi

SPECIAL EDITION: Starting with "There is no wisdom without leisure ...," we pause today from typical news to share with you favorite "Today's Encouragement" quotes from recent months.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If you can change your mind, you can change your life. ~ William James, American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States

Rarely are opportunities presented to you in the perfect way, in a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ... Opportunities, the good ones, they're messy and confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you. ~ Susan Wojcicki, a creator of Google in 1998 and CEO of YouTube 2014-2023

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do. ~ Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016. Click here for his Foundation, with its vision "to save lives and help build healthier families."

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side. ~ Florence Griffeth Joyner, known as Flo-Jo, Olympic runner 1984 and 1988, in Time's 2020 list of the most influential women of the past century

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ~ Dr. Seuss, in Oh, The Places You'll Go

There is no wisdom without leisure. ~ W. B. Yeat

New HFSA Consensus Statement provides practical guide for implementing palliative care with heart failure patients PR Newswire; by Heart Failure Society of America; 11/26/24 Patients with heart failure (HF) suffer from compromised quality of life, high mortality, and complex medical decision-making. Palliative care is an essential part of a comprehensive HF care plan. Integration of Palliative Care into Heart Failure Care: Consensus-Based Recommendations from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), published today in the Journal of Cardiac Failure (JCF), is a practical guide for implementing palliative care as a component of overall HF care. It has been shown that palliative care interventions improve disease-specific quality of life, symptom control, and caregiver burden among patients with HF. Authors of the statement are indicating that HF clinicians should be skilled in providing primary palliative care with competence in basic domains including the management of physical and psychosocial symptoms and serious illness communication.

Coastal Hospice joins Shore Gives More for Giving Tuesday fundraiser ABC 47 WMDT, Salisbury, MD; by Site Staff; 11/26/24 Coastal Hospice is teaming up with the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore for Giving Tuesday. They are one of many non-profits signed up for the Shore Gives More campaign. It’s an online giving event that provides non-profits the opportunity to inspire the community. Editor's note: Heads up, be on the lookout for a post from us on Monday 12/2/24 with a wide scope of ways to support our hospice and palliative care community through "Giving Tuesday."