About Life

Patient: Anonymous (*All names are pseudonyms) Residence: A Hospice Facility in Missouri  Volunteer’s Note Marcus is one of those rare people who can turn an ordinary room into a place of warmth just by being in it. When I first met him at his room inside the hospice facility, he was listening to blues music…

Patient: Eleanor Mae Thompson Residence: Bristol Hospice, Greater Saint Louis Area Volunteer’s Note I met Eleanor during one of my afternoon visits to Bristol Hospice. You can immediately spot her room, it’s the one with the small stack of books next to her bed and a vase of hand-picked flowers that one of the nurses…

Interviewer’s Note The excitement that this anonymous speaker has when she talks is rare. Excitement for her family and their future as well as her own future to continue learning and growing. We don’t have to stop at school. We really can always keep growing and keep improving. I think that’s a powerful sentiment. Growing…

my life, like anyone’s, has been full of shifts and changes, moments of deep turmoil, and moments of absolute clarity. looking back, i can distill my deepest gratitude down to three things: my intelligence, my intuitiveness, and most significantly, my born-again experience. i. the overwhelming sense of peace: the born-again experience that born-again experience is…