Compassionate Living Gifts

"Gracie, you want to be a vegetarian?"

National Everything Awareness Day

Medical personnel give their hearts

Thank you, Essential Workers

Prejudice/Empathy

Protect Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence

Christmas Pets

'You are a very good nurse. You're actually listening to what I'm saying.'

Pet Shop - Parrot labeled as 'Good Listener'

"I have special needs-- good food, warm bed, fresh water, and plenty of room to pop wheelies!"

"The patient in 12-C needs comforting."

If you want to see love be love.

"It's up to you to keep the dream alive..."

Fleeing Kabul

"Tia Carmen, if times are tough, how come you're giving money away?"

'I thought it might help you get your mind off things. It's a story of hope and survival. Nothing at all like your story.'

"I love how he finds joy in the simple things." "The emotional burden of alleviating his depression is crushing me."

"I pick up on people's pain, Alexander. What's wrong?"

"Peace. Love. Adopt."

Really? You're hiring me back to replace the robot you just replaced me with? I've had a change of heart, minion. It may be cheaper to automate my café. But it dawned on me that robots don't buy very many drinks. Plus, as much as I try to let the bottom line guide me, I am, deep down, a very compassionate man. I couldn't bear the thought of you being poor and miserable. Maybe he's not such a bad man. Plus, one accidental incineration of a customer and the authorities get all weird about it.

"We'll less than two metres again, don't know where, don't know when..."

Social Worker

"Don't judge me until you've walked a mile on my medication."

One tends to the sick. The other manages a large estate. Interestingly, a caregiver and a caretaker are not on opposite sides of an interaction.

NHS recruitment.

"No, those people aren't anorexic. Those people are starving."

Crossing USA Mexico Border

'Sorry, shortage of staff.'

'A willingness to sacrifice yourself to bring 'peace and succor to the suffering' is all very well Mother Theresa but I don't think it makes up for your lack of knowledge of current hand sanitisation protocols.'

'Could you wear a Dr. Phil mask?'

"I feel your pain...At home in Europe I also work 14 hours a day in my factory..."

'I'm freezing...The rich list is a little thin this year.'

"It's our latest targets...We have to do twice as much with half the stuff in a quarter of the time!"

"On the other hand, his bedside manner is impeccable."

"This is the time of year when you begin to appreciate the 'Time's' fuller coverage."