Saturday, November 14, 2009

JAPW

one of my fave videos, and a beautiful song that takes me on a road, every time.
props to joan as police woman.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

open heart.

peering into the inside of someone's heart will forever be an image etched into the fabric of my brain. an experience so intimate, yet so depersonalized, so complex.
last week, i was looking into someone's living body- then i stepped back for a moment to contextualize the situation- i attempted to make that connection between the head of the patient with eyes closed under the sterile drape and the chest cavity open and the heart beating. this is something that isn't seen by many people. it's one of those experiences that is a sort of rite of passage, in the same way that seeing a baby being born for the first time leaves you changed forever. standing in surgery, listening to the surgeon's discuss their plan, watching them sew their delicate seams, all of it so visceral, and so profound. i'm left with a sense of pure awe, amazement and wonder- the resilience of this human body.