My mind is everywhere. I am sitting in the coffee shop writing a paper on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and I am thinking about Paul Farmer and my Culture, Health and Science certificate and all the wonderful classes and professors that I met and learned so much from! I am getting sad because I feel so distant from that life, I'm far away from college and most of the people associated with it, and some of the folks to whom I talked about these things so often are no longer in my life.
BUT - the positive side of all of this, is that even when I was doing all of that, attending classes to talk about healthcare, poverty, widespread diseases, etc.. I didn't have any platform from which to really affect the issues... and now I'm in nursing school, being given a chance to remember why I chose this field in the first place! I've made great friends (pictured above), get to live in such a beautiful place, with my dog and a temporary roommate who drives me crazy but whom I love a lot.
I just have to write all of this, to remind myself why I'm here and to keep in mind all of those people who have been forgotten and whose lives can be improved with love, knowledge, and a good nurse! hehe.

nathan, jessica, jed

nathan, jessica, jed
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i am really missing this

Lake Pond Orielle

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I miss this place - I spent my summer living in the house with the front porch from which this picture was taken.
I can't imagine my life having not lived in this place - for better or for worse, I woke up every morning feeling as though I was living some sort of dream. The lesson I learned from this, though, is that a dream only lasts so long; dreams are usually too good to be true, and despite how happy you are and how wonderful the dream seems to be, question everything and always follow your intuition no matter how difficult it may be. words to live by, for sure.