December 2011
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unimaginable
things i’ve been thinking about lately: the feeling of forgiving someone. more specifically, forgiving in a way that is honest. how it tastes in your mouth, how it lets you breathe, how it crouches on the tip of your tongue. trying to accept that you’ve forgiven someone without being afraid that all it really means is that you’re going to let them hurt you again, in all the same...
August 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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April 8, 2011: Getting Away with It, Jack Gilbert →
april-is:
Getting Away with It Jack Gilbert
We have already lived in the real paradise. Horses in the empty summer street. Me eating the hot wurst I couldn’t afford, in frozen Munich, tears dropping. We can remember. A child in the outfield waiting for the last fly ball of the year. So dark already it was black against heaven. The voices trailing away to dinner, calling faintly in the...
March 2011
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lately: dreams about teeth
February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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Anonymous asked: could you give us some book and music recommendations?
November 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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As an end to my first two weeks of medical school, today I removed the heart from a cadaver.
shipwreck asked: Susan!!!!!
July 2010
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@strangetopographies: your bubble sounds really nice. i wish i was there baking cupcakes with you! and, come to think of it, traipsing up and down the west coast. i demand photos + trip reports please. (also, those were photos of the library i spent approx. 50% of my life in between the ages of 10 - 12. MISS IT.)
@righthandedcompany: i am still all, IS THIS REAL LIFE? let’s all hang out...
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also, medical school orientation starts in a week. UM.
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LETTING GO: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
Susan Block and her father had the conversation that we all need to have when the chemotherapy stops working, when we start needing oxygen at home, when we face high-risk surgery, when the liver failure keeps progressing, when we become unable to dress ourselves. I’ve heard Swedish doctors call it a “breakpoint discussion,”...
