The REAL Telluride and Happy Solstice!

Howdy folks…taking a much needed East Coast hiatus in Telluride Colorado….enjoying the Bluegrass Festival, and thanks to Dennis (who has been working at this festival for years) and WONDERFUL Pat O’Kelly (who runs the Country Store) we were met at the volunteer station with backstage passes. That’s right folks. On our second trip backstage we bumped into this guy, you might have heard of him…Chris Thile…he signed my cast (I have a torn ligament). He is one, if not the GREATEST, musicians of our generation as well as an inspiring intellectual.

Now chillin at a coffee shop lookin’ up at the 14,000ft mountains right in our backyard, studyin’…and about to take a blog hiatus now.

Can you blame us? Its beautiful…

Dennis has lots of awesome photos…check back y’all.
(Denise we got the shirts…love them thank you!!)

*****May your Grass always be Blue*****

~~Beautiful Dawn~~

(This pic reminds me of what I look like in the summer when NOT studying 10 hours a day for boards…maybe we’ll all see her again on July 11th!)

Take one stressed gal, add some intense physiology, mix in several large helpings of crazy east-coast people and you have a mess.

This ‘mess’ decided to listen to one of my fav songs by an amazing band The Wailin’ Jennys (check em out) called Beautiful Dawn…I ‘ve listened to this song many times but never really LISTENED to it…nawwhatimsayin?

Here are the lyrics…there are so many words that remind me of love and that its ok to not always be the strongest. The ‘broken heart’ lyrics in this context make me think of all the lonely, broken folks that I see around me everyday on this coast of the east (and everywhere in rich countries…as Mother Teresa says…’in Calcutta when you give the hungry a piece of bread you satiate their hunger, but in the rich countries the poverty is much deeper…it is the unwanted, unloved, lonely people who are excluded from society who are hurting the most…their pain and poverty is great). But take from it what you will, and its ever more touching as a song.

Btw….SUSAN! thank you for the message!!! I have heard of Patty Griffin and I walk by posters daily wishing I didnt have to study for my boards…you are so sweet for thinking of me…thank you so much!!!! MUCH MUCH LOVE!
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Take me to the breaking of a beautiful dawn
Take me to the place where we come from
Take me to the end so I can see the start
There’s only one way to mend a broken heart

Take me to the place where I don’t feel so small
Take me where I don’t need to stand so tall
Take me to the edge so I can fall apart
There’s only one way to mend a broken heart

Take me where love isn’t up for sale
Take me where our hearts are not so frail
Take me where the fire still owns its spark
There’s only one way to mend a broken heart

Teach me how to see when I close my eyes
Teach me to forgive and to apologize
Show me how to love in the darkest dark
There’s only one way to mend a broken heart

Take me where the angels are close at hand
Take me where the ocean meets the sky and the land
Show me to the wisdom of the evening star
There’s only one way to mend a broken heart

Take me to the place where I feel no shame
Take me where the courage doesn’t need a name
Learning how to cry is the hardest part
There’s only one way to mend a broken heart

30 Steps to an Oil Free World

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Gustavo….

Seen Motorcycle Diaries? The story of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado’s adventures in South America before he was a revolutionary…watch it…and while you are listen to the beautiful music.

The artist doing the music is Gustavo Santaolalla…he plays the ronroco

which is a traditional Andean guitar, perfect for studying…which is what I am doing right now between my long stretches of procrastination! If you go to Pandora.com you can hear him and other music similar to his style…

MUCH LOVE AND PEACE!~~~G

Chicken Feed…

36% of the world’s grain supply goes to feeding livestock and poultry.

EAT LESS MEAT!
By eating 2 fewer meat dishes per week, the savings in grain could feed 225 million people each year.
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Check out the book Food Revolution by John Robbins…
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While I’m procrastinating…..also read this! Going to be in Southern Maine on July 1st??? So is George W. Bush…he grew up around here and Bush Sr. has a huge compound…oops sorry…mansion…oopss I mean house here….check this out:

Protest and Citizen’s Summit
Sunday, July 1st 2007 1pm
Kennebunkport, ME USA

Rally called “the Citizen’s Summit” will begin at 1:00pm at the Village Green in Kennebunkport.

People should park at the Kennebunk HIgh School on Fletcher Street and organizers will provide a shuttle service to the assembly site. Please be at the high school between 11:00 and 12:00 to be shuttled to the assembly site.

We have received a permit to march up Ocean Ave. to the BUSH compound, within 75 yards.

Citizens will be demanding the troops home now and the impeachment of Bush and Cheney for the illegal war, torture and war crimes illegal wiretapping and abuses of power.

The event is being organized by the Kennebunks PEACE Department and
Maine Lawyers for democracy and the Maine Campaign to Impeach Bush.
contact: Jamilla El-Shafei at jamillaelshafei@yahoo.com
www.maineimpeach.org

Location:
Village Green Kennebunkport ME

Contact:
Jamilla El-Shafei
jamillaelshafei@yahoo.com

Sponsored By:
Kennebunks PEACE Department, Maine Lawyers for Democracy, Maine Campaign to Impeach Bush, United for Peace and Justice http://www.maineimpeach.org

THANK YOU DAD

Today you sent me an email with a quote in it that brought me to tears…it is a beautiful reminder…thank you…I’m the luckiest gal in all the land.

~~Love you DAD~~

“Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.”

food for thought…

Why are you buying your food from a tobacco company?

Did you know that every product pictured here is owned by Phillip Morris, the world’s largest cigarette company? Chances are that you’ve been helping to promote Marlboro cigarettes without even knowing it. You can withdraw that support by personally boycotting these products. It’s like giving money to a health organization that is working to find a cure for cancer – but in this case you are taking money from a corporation that causes it. So next time you go buy food- try it. You’ll like it.

CHECK OUT ADBUSTERS….under our links to the right!!!

We don’t knead corporate labels! We’ve got multiplication tables!

So, Hello!
Well I have a few hours before I have to go to work so I figured I’d describe my day. It’s raining and windy and has been for the past few days; it’s the aftermath of that hurricane coming up north. Everything here is turning green and there’s something mystic about looking into a misty rainy forest. I love how lush everything is out here; I never would’ve guessed by how dead and barren everything is during the winter. I’m excited, because later this week two of my good friends, Lindsey and Jon, will be visiting. They’re going to the Deftones show in RI and since everything is so compressed here they can come up to Maine for a day! The rain is nice too, because it get’s all of the crazy people into thier houses and off the sidewalks. Let me tell you there is no lack of crazy people here! it is unusual to go out in Portland and not see people talking to themselves or dancing with ribbons in the park. I gotta say I don’t understand people out here! even though they live in the same country the culture is completely different and many of them might as well be from a different planet!
Je suis le glaise,
Dennis

Embryology

Yo ho! Argh! Betchya didn’t know that a pirate can be a doctor?? (not that kind of pirate Meg )

Beth….What be a pirate’s favorite holiday?? AARRRRbor day!

Alright back to a’bloggin’….

I am starting a WAY intensive study schedule for the boards today…as I have pushed them back to July 10th…

and Day 1 finds me intently studying Embryology…which was one of the first courses I took in medical school. I remember back to those days when words like syncytiotrophoblast, buccopharyngeal membrane and extraembryonic somatopleuric mesoderm used to throw me into a-fib…now, these words are somewhat like a second language…which gives me room to laugh about the other words involved in Embryo…

such as the gene names involved (these are real names)…

Nodal
Goosecoid
Noggin
Lefty-1
Lefty-2
(and FOR REAL) Sonic hedgehog

Dude man I was totally shredding the nodal powder when this gnarley goosecoid came out of no where that way totally destroyed my fierce noggin, so it totally forced me to slip into this radical Lefty-1 but then the edge of my Burton bindings spun me into a Lefty-2 which wasn’t a fakey, but ripped up the juice on my sonic hedgehog.

Thank you. Drive thru. I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.