These last few weeks I've been wrapping up with teaching nursing students about OB.  I discovered this youtube video about conception to birth that they have enjoyed.  It is really riveting so I thought I'd post it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=fKyljukBE70



 Georgia was asking how large a human egg is and I had no idea.  I looked it up and found this amazing site.  Use the bar along the bottom and scroll it to the right.  A human egg is tiny!!  I had no idea of the scale of all these things.  It's really cool.


 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

Georgia's got a diary

"Georgia's dairy
NO LOOKING Lily, MOM, Rob"

Glorious beets!

With the afternoon sun pouring in, the beets really looked like jewels.

This is art

Treasure box near Amherst Coffee that Lily discovered!

What the earth is, we are. Walt Whitman

Redwood buds growing and expanding out into lush bright needles, fed by clear rain and sunshine.

Milking time at Upingill

I love picking up my cool heavy glass bottles of milk every week, but I this was the first time I had seen the actually milking.

 The cows were mellow and sweet as they settled in for their milking. 

http://www.upinngil.com/

End of life regrets.....

This list surprised me and made me want to make happiness even more of a priority in my life.

Do you know what the top five 'end of life' regrets are?

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

From Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives and sent in an email from Shiloh Sophia a sacred artist http://www.shilohsophiastudios.com/