Dr. John Rye MRCS CCFP Former board member of SHPCA and Rose Garden Hospice
An English Aristocrat? “My hair is grey but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night, As men’s have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bowed, though not with toil’ But rusted with a vile repose.”
Rose Garden Hospice This is a plan, eight years since launch for a free standing hospice in Prince Albert of ten beds. It is modeled on those in Burlington, Ontario and Red Deer, Alberta It aims to be a base for respite, teaching and volunteer activity. It will showcase Eden and Lean principles and have electronic records in all areas from day one. Funding will be both public and charitable .
Rose Garden Hospice Current status: Negotiations with the City and Health Board are currently active, and confidential. Site selection has been made and service issues are being discussed. We have an office/3P reconstruction in the Gateway Mall. Several business owners have been supportive with promise of finance and knowledge We have a web site: www.rosegardenhospice.ca
An English Aristocrat? “My hair is grey but not with years, Nor grew it white in a single night, As men’s have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bowed, though not with toil’ But rusted with a vile repose.” The Prisoner of Chillon Lord George Bryon 1816
George Gordon Byron bio Born 22/1/1778 Inherited title and Newstead Abbey when 10. First published poetry when 14. Swum the Dardenelles at 22. Left England in 1816, never to return Died 19/4/1824, of fever while fighting in Greece. His daughter Ada was a programmer for Babbage.
Lord Bryon on Greece “The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, And musing there an hour alone I dream’t that Greece might still be free.” The Isles of Greece Lord George Bryon 1810
YOU HAVE PUT TOGETHER MY TWO PET HATES<ARRGH> SOO SORRY …but Lord George Byron (1788 -1824) and Sensei Sakichi Toyoda (1867- 1930) both visited and spoke about the unsafe working conditions in the same cotton mills.
Seiri-sort Seiton-simplify Seiso-sweep Seikutsu-standardize Shitsuke-self discipline
Sort out in your own mind as a group what you want. Make clear plans, including a web site and a business plan. Byron knew he wanted a Free Greece.
Be able to put what you want into a tweet or a conversational line, a one page document and a twenty page report. Talk the language of those you meet, and meet THEIR needs. Byron knew the Greeks’ needed English help, and appealing to classical education and sport would impress more than the needs of the people.
Sweep through your community. In its first six month’s as a project Rose Garden identified over thirty groups and three hundred individuals who wanted and needed to know . Use their skills! Byron position in parliament and his skill as a poet were more useful than his attempts to be a naval commander or care for the sick, which killed him
People remember short, sharp stories and songs. Keep and celebrate individual and team stories and songs, and don’t ever think they don’t matter. Byron’s early life was unfocused but his time in Greece made a difference. Swimming the Dardenelles on 3 rd . May 1810 was a defining act.
Building a hospice is a marathon. Be ready for sudden opportunities to come. Don’t let future hopes block present care. Beware of boredom, burn out and bodge jobs. Byron never saw Greece free, but a major street in every Greek city is named after him.
Lord Bryon on Liberty “Beloved Goddess of the chainless mind! Bright in the dungeons , Liberty! thou art, Thy palace is within a freeman's heart, Whose soul the love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign’d To fetters, and the damp vault’s dayless gloom, The joy in them is with them still, and unconfined Their country conquers with their martyrdom” Untitled sonnet from Chillon Lord George Bryon 1816 Contact me at docrye@shaw.ca Contact us at www.rosegardenhospice.ca
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