August 11, 2014 Sunday "fall landed on feet"

First Words

      …thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician

                    by Glenn Feole, M.D.

        "Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy 

        laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote

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August 11, 2014  Sunday

To my dear readers and friends: I am out of town this weekend but will add more to this on Sunday evening.  :)

Chief Complaint: (written on the chart before I go in the room)

     fall landed on feet  (a computer diagnosis when I looked up "fall")

Interesting Name:

     Kivi

Anecdote:

     I have known Meg her entire life and we are very close.  She was here for her 4 year old check-up and we were having fun.  I told her to look in my treasure box that I kept filled with gifts for my patients.  I showed her some sea shells that I had gotten from the beach and told her to take a couple. 

     She looked at me with surprise and some disappointment and said dramatically, 

     “You went to the beach and got seashells…without me?”

         South Carolina, May, 2014

Poetry:

I Was Brought to My Senses

Alone with my thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I could win you
Or if I could make you mine
Or if I could make you mine

The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth

For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up to fly
And where the two birds were flying
I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I

I walked out this morning
It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
In the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me every blade of singing grass
Was calling out your name and that our love would always last
And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree
The shape of our future
The shape of all our history
And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea
Came things I'd never seen
Things I'd never seen

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me

I know it's true
It's written in a sky as blue
As blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes
If nature's red in tooth and claw
Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
The wounds she gave me
Were the wounds that would heal me
And we'd be like the moon and sun
And when our courtly dance had run
Its course across the sky
Then together we would lie
And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea
Something new would arrive
Something better would arrive

I was brought to my senses
I was blind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me

   lyrics to the song "I Was Brought to My Senses" by Sting
   form the Album Mercury Falling

    

Coup d'essai:

Favorite Musician/song:

Sting, "I Was Brought to My Senses"  from the album Mercury Falling

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