Sitting across the kitchen table from the Other, in the middle of our newfound America: 2/17/17:

perhaps some ideas to be borrowed from this preface to a book: NURSING AS CARING. (Boykin and Schoenhofer, 2013). Irony intended.

* Knowing—Explicitly and implicitly, knowing that and knowing how, knowing directly, and knowing indirectly.

* Alternating rhythm—Moving back and forth between a narrower and a wider framework, between action and reflection.

* Patience—Not a passive waiting but participating with the other, giving fully of ourselves.

* Honesty—Positive concept that implies openness, genuineness, and seeing truly.

* Trust—Trusting the other to grow in his or her own time and own way 

* Humility—Ready and willing to learn more about other and self and what caring involves.

* Hope—”An expression of the plentitude of the present, alive with a sense of a possible”.

* Courage—Taking risks, going into the unknown, trusting.