Literature Review

If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate. ~ Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason DahlEditor's note: Read this again, especially in today's context. And, I thank our 2001 hospice organizations for the immeasurable ways they supported communities through this uncharted public tragedy, grief, and fear that affected us all. Of note, Hospice of Lancaster County (now Hospice & Community Care, Lancaster, PA) supported the families and community of the Shanksville Flight 93 crash through their bereavement leader Patti Holman- Anewalt, PhD.  She served as the founder and former director of their Pathways Center for Grief and Loss, and Bereavment section leader for NHPCO's Bereavement Professionals. From her trauma/grief expertise, Dr. Holman-Anewalt was also a disaster mental health specialist with the American Red Cross. Patti spent 2 weeks as an expert first responder in Shanksville supporting families at the crash site, with them at the morgue for body identification, and much more through that first year and those early annual remembrances. To my hospice colleague Patti, and to countless others, "Thank you!" To the heroes of Flight 93 and other 911 site, we offer a deeply reflective, profound "Thank you."

This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you. ~ Anonymous

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ~Dolly Parton

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, "I'm Possible." ~ Audrey Hepburn

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~Winston Churchill

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. ~ Lisa Goich-Andreadis, 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye

Monday is for people with a mission. ~ Cristina Imre

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world!  ~ Germany Kent

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. ~ Dolly Parton

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, the most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Click here for his post-Olympic Foundation, with its vision "to save lives and help build healthier families."

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~  Aristotle

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right. ~ Aretha Franklin