“Worry less about who you want to be. Worry more about what you want to do.”

Anne McCune – the tag line from her Linked-In website and CEO of The Carol Emmott Foundation, an organization focused on training and supporting women leaders within the healthcare community 

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”

Benjamin Franklin – an essay titled “On Freedom of Speech and the Press,” which he published in **the Pennsylvania Gazette on 17 November 1737. 

“White Christmas has endured for decades because it offers us something we desperately need: a reminder of the transformative power of generosity and community. [The] story teaches us that true fulfillment comes not from what we achieve for ourselves, but from what we do for others.”

Mary Giattino, Director & Choreographer of White Christmas of the Ogunquit Playhouse, performed at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH 2025.

“How very good and pleasant when kindred live together in unity.”

                        I Corinthians 1:10

 “We feel for you politically but the American voters delivered a situation where the entire world is under the cosh of Trump and his Techmates.”

Friend from London

“The establishment will irritate you to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”

John Lennon – The quote is attributed to Lennon and reflects his philosophy of peace activism during the late 1960s and early 1970s (a period of time remembered by us older folks) and from the time of his “Bed-Ins for Peace” with Yoko Ono – a notable opposition event to the Vietnam War.

“From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.” 

Will Durant (1885-1981) – an American historian, philosopher, and writer who wrote the 11-volume work The Story of Civilization, co-authored with his wife, Ariel Durant.

“Both in Gaza and Lebanon, healthcare facilities have not only been directly targeted, but access to care has also been obstructed, including incidents where ambulances have been prevented from reaching the injured, or deliberately attacked…What is becoming clear is that healthcare workers and facilities are no longer afforded the protection guaranteed by international humanitarian law.”

Joelle Abi-Rached, MD and Colleagues, American University of Beirut, Lebanon in a commentary published in the BMJ Global Health

BUT – a picture is worth a thousand words…