Thoughts from ME

I think the body is phenomenal. In neurobiology we did a lab once where we take a thin metal pick and get it really cold and then in a marked 1X1 square on a partner's arm, you lightly touch the tip of your pick. In that small box, there will only be pinpricks where you can feel the coolness of that pick. Your receptors for the sensation of "cold" are only every little bit across your skin. If you were to do the same thing but with a warmed pick, you would experience the same thing - only on certain points in that 1X1 square would you feel the warmth of that pick. Isn't that fascinating?! One of the reasons I appreciate summer (there aren't many of them) is that only in summer do I get the chance to experience one of my absolute favorite sensations. When the sun is high and the day is blazing - so hot you can feel the concrete through your sandals, feel the skin burning on your cheeks, feel the sweat budding on your lip - on those days, occasionally you walk pas...

Garth Stein in his novel "The Art of Racing in the Rain" speaking from the perspective of a canine named Enzo said, "To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life..." I have six older brothers. That is what I tell people when they ask about my family. Six older brothers. I have lost one to mystery, one to death, and momentarily lost one behind high-closed-depressing walls. I have one who loves to joke and makes swords and knives and shields out of duct tape for his sons. One who serves his country and daily lives with a gigantic dose of faith and fortitude and praises God with that life. I have one who loves to sing off key with his windows down, who reads the world around him with a keen inspecting eye. The love they each have for the wives and their children. I remember riding on their shoulders, their backs, their knees. I remember having food stolen off my plate. I remember bandaged knees...

Seeing: "Blue skies, nothing but blue skies" :) Making: my schedule for MY LAST SEMESTER AT BYU-IDAHO (bittersweet) Cooking:  rhubarb pie this week - collecting the rhubarb this afternoon! Drinking: my favorite summer drink - watermelon slush. Simply take cold watermelon and blend in a blender - enjoy Reading: "Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that heal" by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. And rereading an old favorite: Goblet of Fire, Rowling Hearing: Ed Sheeran radio -mm yes. Wanting: breakfast burritos, I can't get enough of them. Looking: forward to the next month while I wait to hear about secondary applications for medical school Playing: with A.M. this weekend! (And maybe my sister!) Wasting: time watching "When Calls the Heart" - it's good. don't judge :P Understanding: the importance of being comfortable in the positive situations in which you find yourself Wishing: things were different but working o...