Two High School Graduates

A much smaller article today.

It is High School Graduation season around these here parts and two families who are good friends of ours each have a daughter graduating.

Both young ladies are going away to college to study nursing and I hope both will be successful in their career paths. They present an interesting contrast.

They are both smart. I am going to call one of them Penny and the other Janet just to make the story easier to follow. (Not their real names of course)

Penny is from a large family she is, I think, the eldest. She is very facile in dealing with her younger siblings and with the youngest ones she is poised and safe. I think she is going to do very well in her chosen career.

Janet is the middle sibling and she had some severe health problems growing up and had a lot of hospital visits and stays. She is determined to become a nurse and she really does have a lot of experience of what nurses do and they are her inspiration.

They are both destined for out of state colleges, which did surprise me. I don’t know either one of them well enough to have any insight as to why they picked the colleges that they did.

On of our very best friends is a retired nurse who has been a huge influence and help to us for a long time. She has mentioned that a book that Florence Nightingale wrote called “Notes on Nursing – What it is and What it is not.”

We bought each of the graduates a Commemorative Edition of the book and we can hope that they find the book helpful as they move through their career.

It is good to see such great potential going into nursing. I owe a great deal to Nurses.

The future is bright.