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Us and Ourselves – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Long time back, I met a person who had published a collection of his poetry; regular, romantic kind. The gentleman himself was on the other side of middle-age, sported a long beard and was a religious person. I was young and brash (and stupid) and asked him why he was writing poetry because he did not even look like a poet. He calmly replied that first the person had to be good; only then he would be able to do good things, be it poetry or else. I had no reply to that. Today, we use the term ‘holistic’ in many situations. We say that the hiring process should be holistic, we say professional ...

Emotional Intelligence Primer – Blog Post #359 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #358. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Emotional Intelligence is about emotions. Though it is mostly studied in the context of work, but it is actually about feelings, personal and work. One major part is to be able to understand own self and its emotions because controlling these will bring control over others. Medical explanation besides, Emotions are talked about with reference to heart. The following poem and pictorials come from the fav Brain Pickings. The poem is apparently written and drawn for children, but it is equally, if not more, applicable to adults as well. [quote] “How is your heart?” I re...

KINDNESS – Blog Post #352 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #352 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   My dearly respected  Maria Popova recently posted this lovely piece. In a time of turmoil like this, we all need this soft yet powerful reminder. KINDNESS by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the windo...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #334 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Lucila Godoy Alcayaga   ( American Spanish:  [luˈsila ɣ oˈðoj alkaˈ ʝ a ɣ a] ; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her   pseudonym   Gabriela Mistral   ( Spanish:  [ɡaˈβɾjela misˈtɾal] ), was a   Chilean   poet-diplomat ,   educator   and   humanist . In 1945 she became   the first Latin American author   to receive a   Nobel Prize in Literature , “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”. Some central themes in her poems are nature, bet...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #322 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . [Quote] “Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in  Prowent , Poland (now part of  Kórnik , Poland), the second daughter [8]  of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her father was at that time the  steward  of Count  Władysław Zamoyski , a Polish patriot and  charitable   patron . After the death of Count Zamoyski in 1924, her family moved to  Toruń , and in 1931 to  Kraków , where she lived and worked until her death in early 2012. Szymborska was awarded the 1996  Nobel Prize in Literature  "for poetry that with  ironic prec...

A Poem to Enjoy – Blog Post #316 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #316 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Today, I present you with an extraordinary poem from an extraordinary person. Please read the poem first. ANTIDOTES TO FEAR OF DEATH by Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrai...