Older physicians can learn from as readily as teach younger physicians. The nursing staff has much to teach us, as we have much to share with them. Even patients are part of the mentoring circle. We can advise them on wellness and how to keep their bodies as healthy as they are able, and they can teach us about their illness and how to help them in the most meaningful way. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly.
Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. The image of a great tree likened to a great soul captures the essence of mentoring for me.