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Bonnie's new book has hit the shelves look for it at your favourite book store:
Book Description
A collection of short stories of growing up in Newfoundland in various out ports where my father served in the RCMP, becoming a registered nurse, moving away from Newfoundland, living raising a family and practicing a nursing career in Nova Scotia, then returning to Newfoundland in 2000
How about a copy of one or more of Bonnie's Stories in a Card for a special person who does not have access to them. If someone is sight impaired just left click on view above, left click on text size and choose largest and then print the story off, it will be easy to read and I am sure it will be enjoyed.
Bonnie's autobiography 
& Guest Book (please sign).
For a taste of what you will find inside, try this one:
Patience Patients!!
I was in the process of adapting myself to a new department in a little
rural hospital. Of course, for the staff members who had been on the unit
for some time, it was no problem for them to know every patient, their
families, and their special circumstances. But for me, it was a struggle
trying to familiarize myself with the floor plan, let alone all the faces,
names and desires, not to mention the routines, of thirty-three patients.
One early evening stands out in my mind as a ‘watershed moment’.young lady walked up to me and asked "Nurse, can Dad have something to eat?" My mind raced- "Who is Dad?"
In an effort to clarify who ‘Dad’ was I asked where he was. I carefully chose my words and asked "And your father is . . .?"
The little face looked up at me strangely and said softly,"HUNGRY."
Bonnie Jarvis-Lowe, RN. Ret’d.
"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have." Stephen Hawking
“We need to dwarf our troubles and magnify our blessings.” Humphrey B. Neill
A Short Political Meeting
”It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.” Joseph Joubert
'IT'S A SMALL WORLD'
”Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.” Benjamin Franklin
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." Rabindranath Tagore
"The difficulty in life is the choice." George Moore
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery scene- even the most common- is wonderful.
It just takes a sensitive and imaginative eye to reveal its beauty.
"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts." Winston Churchill
"For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead" Thomas Jefferson
“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Irish Proverb
“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.” Leo Buscaglia
“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Irish Proverb
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have
the universe against me."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." Thomas Jefferson
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." Mark Twain
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." Rotarian
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." Anonymous
"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Castaneda
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." E. E. Cummings
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." Dolores Ibarruri
"A peaceful mind generates power." Unknown
"Being bored is an insult to oneself." Jules Renard
"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." Cassius Longinus
"You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding." Guy Finley
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed." Walter Lippman
"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience." Blaise Pascal
"Believing and dreaming go hand in hand." Unknown
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good Morning' at total strangers." Maya Angelou
"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." Stanley Walker
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Cherie Carter-Scott
"Every time that you put yourself last, you are making the right decision." Eugene Campanelli
‘GOIN’ FISHIN?’
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." Warren Buffett
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." Unknown
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." Paul Valery
"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." Faith Baldwin
A NEW STORY BY DAVID JARVIS
"The heart has always the pardoning power." Anne-Sophie Swetchine
"Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through." George Eliot
"You don't have to lie awake nights to succeed-just stay awake days." Anonymous
A STORY BY DAVID JARVIS (BONNIE'S BROTHER)
"Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream." Stephanie Powers
"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark." Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts." Dayle Maloney
"Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door.... You might not be home." Jinger Heath
"I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth." Eudora Welty
"It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are." Joyce Carol Oates
"Every path has its puddle." English proverb
"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." Okakura Kakuzo
"Age is totally unimportant. The years are totally irrelevant. It's how you cope with them." Shirley Lord
A SPECIAL TIME FOR NANNY
"Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries." Joes Ortegay Gasset
"For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." Anon.
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears." Glenn Clark
"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow." Henry S. Haskins
‘THE NURSERY CONNECTION’
"Love does not control. Love gives!" Eddie Long
‘HOPSCOTCH BY GOSH!’
"When you are pursuing the wrong things, you're never satisfied." Joyce Meyers
‘ROOTS AND WINGS’
"The first law of success is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left." William Matthews
"Every exit is an entry somewhere." Tom Stoppard
"Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself." Kenneth S. Davis
‘MIXED MESSAGES’
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." Bernard Berenson
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." John Ruskin
‘THE SURGEON AND MY ‘SEEMORE’
"What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility." Daniel Goleman
‘THE LOBSTER ATTACK’
"Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." Lillian Smith
‘THE SHORT EXPLANATION!’
"Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?" Pablo Casals
‘MY ORANGE COW’
"He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death." Mark J. Ottaviani
‘ WHERE’S THE KEY?’
"Money doesn't people, it merely unmasked them. If a person is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that is all." Henry Ford
‘REMEMBER YOUR HELMET’
"Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring." Thomas Merton
‘RETIRED ARE YA?’
"The disciplined person is the person who can do what needs to be done when it needs to be done." Richard Foster
LISTEN TO YOUR NURSE
"Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going too far." Jean Cocteau
‘A MAD COW IN STITCHES’
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." Anne Sullivan
‘HOOKED ON COD CANDY’
"The best armor is to keep out of range." Italian proverb
‘WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?’
"All genuine progress results from finding new facts." Wheeler McMillan
‘HOW WINDY WAS IT ANYWAY?"
"Watch your step when you immediately know the one way to do anything. Nine times out of ten, there are several better ways." Wm. B. Given, Jr.
'JUST CALL IT THE I/V'
"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new." Philip Crosby
'My Favorite Rant!'
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." Marcus Aurelius,
‘SIMONIZING’ AS A CREATIVE TOOL’
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." Julia Sorel
‘A MAJOR BUM CHECK’
"Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are." Mark McGinnis
'BERYL AND THE BUDGIE BIRD’
"It is your disabled attitude that determines your disability and it is your disability that can or can't close opportunities in life for you." William Ngwako Maphoto
‘ CHERYL P., AND HER RECYCLING PROGRAM’
"Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it." Anon.
"THAT'S FUNNY"! "HOME WE CALLS UM
FLOWERS"!
"The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts." Fulton J. Sheen
WANT A REFERENCE
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." Bernice Johnson Reagon
"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it." Jim Rohn
'THE TIME I WAS TRICKED' The revenge of a Son.
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelou
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‘A SOMEWHAT SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY’
Yvonne (Bonnie) Jarvis-Lowe I was born in Marys’ Harbor, Labrador, in 1948. My father was a Newfoundland Ranger stationed at Port Hope Simpson, so in a few weeks I took my first boat trip on the ‘Kyle’,one of the coastal boats that serviced the Newfoundland and Labrador coast, home to my father at the Rangers Quarters in Port Hope Simpson. In what was to be a long list of boat trips and moves we moved to Twillingate when I was just a year old. After that came Burgeo, Port Saunders, Grand Falls, Clarenville, (where I met my husband the summer he joined the RCMP), and Bell Island. My father had merged from the Ranger Force into the RCMP with a confederation so we, as a family, of course went where his work took him. The family later moved to Labrador City, Goose Bay, and then back to Mount Pearl, but I had left home by then.
I attended many schools obviously, graduating from Grand Falls Academy, Grand Falls, NL. in 1964. However the problem was that to enter the Grace for Nurses training you had to be seventeen years and seven months old. I was just fifteen. My parents enrolled me in the Commercial course at St.Catherines High School in Grand Falls, and after graduating I worked as a stenographer with Harvey Dawe Ltd. In Grand Falls until Fathers’ transfer in 1966 to Clarenville. In October of 1966 I entered training at the Grace General Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1969, and after a short trip to England, went to work in Grand Bank.
April 1970 I married and moved to Nova Scotia where my husband served in many areas in his role as an officer in the RCMP, Dartmouth, Sydney Mines, Halifax, Lunenburg, Windsor, and then Halifax again. We lived in Windsor for the longest time that I have lived anywhere, 23 years, so therefore the major part of my life and career was in the little town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, living in the small village of Falmouth, just a few kilometers away.
We have two children, a son and a daughter, my daughter is in Calgary and my son in Fort Mcmurray. Both well educated and self- sufficient.
The year 2000 brought a big change to our lives when we made the move back to Newfoundland, giving in to the call of the sea, back to where our roots lay, and our families lived. It was not something we had ever planned but it was necessary to do. The call was too strong to ignore.
So, now we are both retired, enjoying our various pursuits, having a little grandchild adds to our lives even though they are far away, it is somewhat easier than it was for me leaving because the age of technology has made it so. Communication is quicker and having the means to travel is a far cry from the living from paycheck to paycheck of our younger days.
So, that is me, I am 54 years of age now, love photography, writing, cooking, my books, music and of course my beautiful cat .I have finally adjusted to being out of the loop of hands on nursing, a difficult adjustment at first but health considerations played a part in my decision to leave while at the top and still actively nursing. Travel is big on the agenda now, as is family.
And Story Telling is a passion that has always been with me as I recall a team mate on night duty saying "Bonnie, I am so tired, tell me one of your stories!" and it would start a great laugh, and of course, bring forth a story.
‘Do No Harm’, that is the pledge we took in 1969, and I do hope throughout my life that I did no harm, and if I did it certainly was never intentional. I am proud of the fact that in the face of some terrible behavior by people, I never ever said a mean word to a patient. And frankly I don’t know how I did that. I think a special force looks over little Newfoundland girls who are pursuing their dreams, and showing they care.
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Bonnie Jarvis-LowePS: Although my given name is Yvonne, I had a Welsh godmother, and I was born the same week as Prince Charles. She said he was another ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ and I was a ‘Bonnie little Princess’, I believe she was vastly misled on that, however the name Bonnie stuck and is used by one and all to this day. .
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