“Sometimes what we think we know stops us from seeing things as they truly are.”

Such an easy holiday gift idea! Ha!

“I love babies!”
Bonnie Cady and her art-making captivate me. From rocks, to eggs, to larger eggs, to pregnancy, to embryos, to babies, to grandmother, to falling in love all over again. Yes! When you’re happy, you’re productive. Have more life in your home and it will bring more love.

Woolly Mammoth from Here There on Vimeo.

Warm partner contact is related to lower cardiovascular activity
Grewen KM1, Anderson BJ, Girdler SS, Light KC.

Abstract: The authors investigated the relationship between brief warm social and physical contact among cohabitating couples and blood pressure (BP) reactivity to stress in a sample of healthy adults (66 African American, 117 Caucasian; 74 women, 109 men). Prior to stress, the warm contact group underwent a 10-minute period of handholding while viewing a romantic video. Followed by a 20-second hug with their partner, while the no contact group rested quietly for 10 minutes and 20 seconds. In response to a public speaking task, individuals receiving prestress partner contact demonstrated lower systolic BP diastolic BP, and heart rate increases compared with the no contact group. The effects of warm contact were comparable for men and women and were greater for African Americans compared with Caucasians. These findings suggest that affectionate relationships with a supportive partner may contribute to lower reactivity to stressful life events and may partially mediate the benefit of marital support on better cardiovascular health.

(Thank you Jolene for sharing and for making me hug you until it became uncomfortable, then really uncomfortable, to sort of okay, to okay, to wait don’t leave me! Ha! 🙂 And then to find a research article supporting the 30-second hug! Bonus! Beware: I’m giving hugs until your oxytocin releases. Bahaha!)

Listen with the eyes.
Feel with the heart.
(Thank you Randy for sharing :))

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia

(Thank you Neva for sharing:))

The Clinician’s Eye: Learning to See (In the Art Museum)

“When you ask someone to perform a challenging task, without realizing it, their attention narrows and blocks out other things. So, often, they literally can’t see even a huge, hairy gorilla that appears directly in front of them.”

Wherever the art of medicine is loved,
there is also a love of humanity.
~ Hippocrates

Going home soon to be with my sea and my peeps. Dark, deep, and tumultuous…she trains you to survive the unexpected. #ImpactZone #Mavericks #ThemBones #RidingGiants

My boy with his idol. Big wave rider & legend Jeff Clark @ Mavericks. Seen above in Riding Giants.

Ummm…I’m trippin’ on acoustic levitation right now. Wow. Limitless. Destin did an episode on it last year. Yep, let’s levitate something dude! I’m officially obsessed. The slow mo on it is pretty epic. 🙂