Catalina

I love the storm passing over the Santa Catalina Mountains...incidentally, this little range is named for St. Catherine of the 'Catherine Wheel" (torture device) fame. Before that unfortunate incident, however, she was known as a scholar. These mountains, named in 1697 seemed to know in advance a university would be nearby...Catherine would be proud.

Even though I don't officially believe in Saints and Angels, I choose to pretend that I do. Much like medieval scholars with their dual maps of the world - the 'True map' with spiritual meaning, and then the one you use to sail or travel by. My maps of the world include what I see and what I enjoy considering....Really, science and medicine is like this, so much of what we are learning are possible maps or belief systems superimposed over the body we know. The missing places or the mythological ones perhaps as important as they well-charted regions.

Humid, hot and cloudy, strange weather, but normal for Tucson.

Put your heart into it

Clearly, all those years of art are coming in handy in med school...

I love drawing, I love anatomy, this was perhaps the most fun study moment today.

I like remembering that our first good anatomists were artists - thank you for bothering to check out the real deal my friends Vesalius, Michelangelo and Da Vinci.

And, by the way, dear artists, thanks for reminding us that all that fabulous anatomy comes together in expressions and gestures.