Today was a good day to end my work week, I had the pleasure of meeting two sweet old couples. I was reminded how strong love is, especially a woman’s love. The first woman I met was the sweetest lady I had ever transported who never stopped saying “thank you ma’am” throughout her whole trip. She was eager to be reunited with her husband who was already at the rehab facility she was being transported to. When she came into the room and called his name, he did not recognize who she was. I could see and feel the pain in her eyes and tears, I swelled up inside and kept my composure telling her what a great and strong lady she was. On another note, we transported a man to the place where his wife of 65 years was waiting for him. They were both darling and kind. After we got him situated, his wife told my partner and I that her husband was an ex commander for the navy and fighter pilot from the Korean War. It was such a pleasure to meet each one of these wonderful individuals today who in little encounters has reinforced my belief in the strength and tenderness of love.
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In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.
In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”
Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”](http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/756/hhhhhh1.jpg)
In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.
In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”
Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”
that moment when you relize you had at the tip of your fingertips and finally lose the one you love…
Comparison will be the death of me.
Channel envy into appreciation and respect.
Contentment = A special happiness that is not always had.
