I find my breath
Guilty? or Grateful?
I check for signs of yours
Lucky? or Lingering?
I see, in your tired eyes
-which I wipe with dampened cloth-
Yearning
I feel, in your shaking hand
-which I hold gently in mine-
Restlessness
I hear, in your muted sounds
-which I strain to comprehend-
Love
I sit as Doula
I sit as Human
I sit as Life, bright yet knowing
Witness to thresholds
present and still.
-Francesca Arnoldy, 2018
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Francesca Arnoldy is the doting mama of two precious kiddos and wife of the man who blesses her dreams with love and support. She is the program director of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine's End-of-Life Doula certificate program and author of CULTIVATING THE DOULA HEART: ESSENTIALS OF COMPASSIONATE CARE. A self-proclaimed “recovering perfectionist,” Francesca regularly tosses herself into thrilling, often terrifying challenges of unknowns like writing, completing tax returns, FSBO, and a number of other random tasks for which she’s entirely untrained. She lives in quaint Hinesburg, VT within a most idyllic “village.”
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