Anatomy Vs. Harry Potter Spell

 I knew taking Anatomy was good for something!

  Harry Potter Spell or Part of the Human Anatomy?

 

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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 :)

NPH vs. Neil Gaiman?

so much love right now :)

How not to collaborate with a biostatistition

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6878253/

Not that any of us are really that interested in research, but I thought this was funny anyway. My bro sent it to me. As you know, he's getting his degree in biostatistics, so this may be his future.

Also, if any of you have time and an idea, try making a fun little movie on that web site :-P Looks pretty easy!

I got a pretty little pumpkin named Georgina who is soon to be carved, so I'll post some pics when that gets done. I want to see your pumpkin friends and Halloween costumes, too! And, since I have a test the day after Halloween, I would love it if those of you who are going out could take pictures of the best costumes you see and post them! If you want to, of course.

Back to the cranial nerves!

Webcomic Fun

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=45829

Good webcomic short story^

Survived test 2 in structure and development somehow. Am 7 lectures behind this weekend because I was recovering all week. Otherwise, all is right in the world.

Woke up to a phone call, and ran to the window to see Anica passing my window in the Baltimore Marathon 5k. Fun times :)
-i

Coolest parent EVER!

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

I want to send a balloon to space!!!!