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24th August 2007

Weekend building

Glad to be coming to the end of the working week. It hasn’t been too bad a week, lots of colds and flus, lots of minor procedures today for some reason, only one life and death emergency the other day which all worked out okay. But it’s my first full 5 day week for around 2 months so I’m glad to be approaching the weekend.  Next weekend is my first on-call since being back, which may not be a bad thing to help pay the bills, and to start saving for my time off in October on the next Uganda trip. Have had a few emails over the last day or so from various people regarding the medical team which is a timely reminder that I need to start thinking about it and getting organised. Especially I need to start brushing up on my tropical medicine again – I might get out the cool African medicine textbook I picked up last month in Uganda.

Also today I was dropped off two big boxes of Lego which I bought off eBay from a guy in Mandurah. It was nice of him to drop it in to me at work, saving me a trip to pick it up. Also, in addition the the one box I had bid on, he threw in an even bigger box of Lego he had found. So it looks like me and the boys will be busy building stuff this weekend :) I used to love Lego as a kid and we are all pretty enthused about it after visiting Legoland. They had a cool “pick-n-mix” shop where you could fill a bag with lego pulled out of these little bins, kinda like a lolly shop. Anyway, better see my last couple of patients and then get outta here.



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24th August 2007

Only wonder understands

Fantastic quote I read yesterday from St Gregory of Nyssa :

“Concepts create idols, only wonder understands anything”

I just love that phrase, “only wonder understands” – it really captures the centrality of a sense wonder and mystery that we all too often lack in our modern world, a sense that gets diluted by concrete concepts and a scientific view of the world… It would also make a very cool blog title, or album title, catchphrase, whatever.



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