Summer days passing while waiting in isolation
for the lab results.
He needed a glimpse of hope.

“Mom, I just want to go home
and lay down in the grass.”

Imagine… a lush green cushion
warmed by soft sun;
a gentle breeze…
wrapped in the comforting arms
of Mother Nature.

Kathleen Flanagan is a recently retired pediatric nursing instructor at UMASS Dartmouth College of Nursing.