To me, nursing means being a community nurse. To be a community nurse is to be a guest in your clients’ homes – and in their lives. When you enter the living spaces of others, you enter the place they hope to go for refuge, peace and recovery. There is sacredness in being invited into someone’s living space – after all we don’t have to let each other in. Although I’ve worked in in-patient settings, I am always drawn back to the wholeness of community work – where the bigness of an individual’s daily life is inescapable.  To see someone in their living situation is to see so much of them. Our personal spaces shed light on what is happening in our lives – the keepsakes, the inevitable p...