Post-It Note Wall

I love the photo here! I can't find it on istockphoto, but I want to share it. It reminds me of a dark/grayish blue wall with a bunch of yellow post-it notes all over it. Inspiration?!

Oh, and you can read the book reviews too :)


Three Modern Fables To Capture Your Imagination
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132621436/three-modern-fables-to-capture-your-imagination

A request

Esther - where is our winter mix?
The rest of you - Do you guys have music you like to run to? I'm starting to get 'fit' . . . well as fit as I am going to be in med school, and would love some tunes with a good beat. I'd like a running mix!

Windows Are Rolled Down: Amos Lee

New Favorite song to sing in the car :)

9 Things That Make Me Happy

1) Surprising my landlady with bouquets of flowers around her garden

2) Sharing a hammock with a good friend at the beach
(friend not pictured)

3) BEST LATE NIGHT CHICKEN WINGS!

4) Small small dog in a big big truck

5) Pumpkin chucker

6) Getting my picture taken with a famous gecko

7) Entering the home of a few witches



8) Concert T-Shirt ....


9) ....from The New Pornographers!!

Anatomy Vs. Harry Potter Spell

 I knew taking Anatomy was good for something!

  Harry Potter Spell or Part of the Human Anatomy?

 

  Score: 100% (10 out of 10)

Holland

This was read to us by the mother of a child with Down's Syndrome. I thought it was so touching, I wanted to pass it on.

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

by
Emily Perl Kingsley.

c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

LOVE THIS!

This is exactly what I want to do when I hear this song!

Thanks again for posting this on the Autumn mix Esther, this is officially my new favorite song :)