What if we approached the New Year in the way a bride approaches her wedding day? We would not have to worry ourselves with well-intentioned New Year resolutions. Instead, we’d simply decide on four things to take into the new year—“something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

Most of us are familiar with this traditional English wedding rhyme that dates to the nineteenth century. In its shortened contemporary version (“and a sixpence in her shoe” is seldom used), the rhyme contains the clues to the “four good-luck objects…a bride…

The four-centuries-old Quaker Values impact the exceptional level of care available to you today.

And you probably don’t know much about the Quakers, its beliefs and continued work throughout the world. As a member of Friend’s Life Care, Quakerism affects your life nearly every day.

Friend’s Life Care was founded as a – and continues to be – a Quaker-Value-based organization. Their culture, mission and everyday actions are rooted in the Quaker Values.

“For me, Quakerism has been like finding home, values over dogma, a value on everyone’s inner light,” says Joylyn W…

My niece had asked me to become her so-called doula. By the
time I arrived at the hospital, the new addition to the family had arrived
already. The baby had come four weeks early, but the nurses were ready,
preparing her for the new world. The newborn was hungry; so they fed her as my
niece gradually recovered from the anesthesia. But once awakened, they were
adamant that my niece hold her baby and make the “skin-to-skin” connection—the
bonding process. The newborn needed connection and love to feel safe in the
cold, sterile room outside the warm womb that had incuba…