February 2012
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Tell me something
Received a phone call from a good friend: “Tell me something peaceful, something soggy and something gnawing in your life.”
Something gnawing… my undisturbed study books for the Mcat.
Something soggy… my seemingly uneventful, unsuccessful life post undergrad wondering if I’m on the right track or just wasting my time.
Something peaceful… Fresh air. Going...
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January 2012
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“The minute I heard
my first love story,
I started looking for you,
not...”
– Rumi (via lngo)
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“Later, when I expressed this anger to my father - “How do you deal with anger?”-...”
– up up and away: anger
October 2011
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September 2011
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“Healing is an art, medicine is a profession, health care is a business.”
– New York Times, September 5, 2011.
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August 2011
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“The world starts where your comfort zone ends.”
– (via bobbypinned)
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Thanatos
melaena:
Acrylic on canvas 100x120cm
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“Of 2000 years of history, all memorized in the minds of studious Chinese youth,...”
– up up and away: America
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Health.
nursling:
“Health is not a commodity. Risk factors are not disease. Aging is not an illness. To fix a problem is easy, to sit with another suffering is hard. Doing all we can is not the same as doing what we should. Quality is more than metrics. Patients cannot see outside their pain, we cannot see in, relationship is the only bridge between. Time is precious; we spend it on what we value....
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My old music ethnography teacher back in college once told our class a great story involving a group of ethnographers and an African tribal gentleman (Masai, maybe? I forget). The ethnographers took the tribesman to a symphony. He had never heard Western music before, so they were curious to find out what he thought of it. When they asked him after the concert, the tribesman said that he had...
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