How Acupuncture is Like Gardening

I was out watering the garden this morning noticing how slowly things actually move in nature. We direct seeded a bunch of root crops and greens a few weeks ago and at first I felt a bit silly watering raised beds with only dirt in them. After a week, then 10 days, I started to [...]

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The Pain of Broken Bones

It’s rather funny, when I started the “Dark Matters” series I knew I intended to write about pain, but I had no idea how or where to begin. I now sit with a broken leg and it’s perfectly clear exactly where to start: with compassion and sympathy. When I first went down in the snow [...]

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Beginning of a New Semester

Things feel different this semester. I’ve discussed it with a couple friends and they agree. We seem to have passed a threshold, out of the foundation building level, and into the level of application and use. This semester we’re finally getting into the details of diagnosis and treatment of diseases (we’ll be focusing on respiratory [...]

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Wishbones

Growing up, whenever my mom made chicken, my brothers and I would always get excited about the wishbone, that strange and symbolic bone from the chicken, that somehow magically releases power to the person holding on to the bigger piece when broken. I have no idea how we decided which 2 of the 3 of [...]

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Life, School, Stress, and Feeling Good

As the Fall begins to sink its fingers into the Northeast with cooler weather, shorter days, and some crazy wind we’re moving into more complicated material and through an intense midterm period. I managed to get out the city a couple of weekends ago, which was incredibly important for my health (though by now some [...]

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