Bike Trip Oct.17th

Sights and scenes from my bike ride through the countryside south of Cambridge. This was my route (total of 18.4 miles):

Along the way I saw some lovely things:

There's a little speck in the sky, which is a bird flapping his wings desperately against the wind and getting nowhere, until at last he dove to the earth in either defeat or exhaustion.

Am I anthropomorphizing a bit? Yes, a lot in fact, but how can you not see that in the bird?

Nothing makes the sky look bigger than a landscape as flat as a pancake.

Red telephone box in Newton that has been repurposed into a lending library. I died and went to heaven when I saw it.

Last bit of the trip (and really the destination that inspired it in the first place), the DNA Cycle Path, which runs from Addenbrooke's Hospital to Great Shelford and is doecorated with 10,257 colorful stripes which represent the four nucleotides of the BRCA2 gene.

Cheers!

Comments

WGW: Feb. 5th, 2020

Every week I send out an update to the medical school, which gets send out as part of WGW (What's Good Wednesday), an email where the associate deans of students compiles the professional and academic accomplishments and life events of the student body in an effort to help keep us connected even though we are spread out across lecture halls, campuses, and hospitals across the state. Usually populated by sporadic submissions of significance, after talking with friends before I left, I decided to twist the format to suit my needs to stay connected to my class. After the fifth week of consistent submission, my update was given it's own special place and title: Kassel's Corner. Greetings from the UK! Kassel Galaty (Med21, I suppose) continues to study in the UK. Brexit happened, but we don't talk about that here. Notable talks this week have been about the History of CBT in Ghana, meeting the Canadian astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons, and "Pick your Poison: Insectic...

Birds of the National Archives

I spent three days in early November pouring over the archives of the Ministry of Health for my first essay, which was about the failed attempt by the NHS to standardize medical records in 1965. The National Archives has a pond out front and every morning I enjoyed being greeted by the diverse fowl outside. Hope you do too! Heron (?) Mid-downpour Swans on the move. A million times less graceful out of the water than in it.

WGW: November 20th, 2019

Every week I send out an update to the medical school, which gets send out as part of WGW (What's Good Wednesday), an email where the associate deans of students compiles the professional and academic accomplishments and life events of the student body in an effort to help keep us connected even though we are spread out across lecture halls, campuses, and hospitals across the state. Usually populated by sporadic submissions of significance, after talking with friends before I left, I decided to twist the format to suit my needs to stay connected to my class. After the fifth week of consistent submission, my update was given it's own special place and title: Kassel's Corner. Salutations from across the pond! Kassel Galaty (Med20 wannabe) stubbornly remains in England. Crunch-time is approaching as her first essay is due next Monday (send eloquent, concise, and historically illuminating vibes her way) so this is mostly what she has been doing: She has so many b...

Where Kassel Rhymes with Castle

Search This Blog