September 29--The Nerve!

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.  --Rabindranath Tagore

Your heart is the real compass of your life. Purity of heart is the gift that guides you, leads you, shepherds you from one end of life to the other, always content knowing that you have done what you were born to do. What else could possibly be worth a life?   --Joan Chittister

    This past Friday, I drove to Kansas City for The Nerve Tour. This is a five-hour presentation on the human nervous system by Gil Hedley, whose personal slogan is "Dedicated to Exploring Inner Space." He and his wife Rachel are traveling to cities large and small all over the country offering this. Gil spent months in the lab with many assistants dissecting a human body to follow the nerve tree within us. I came away with two mighty impressions: 1) Gil, brilliant researcher that he is, is an extraordinary human being (clearly doing what he was born to do), and 2) the complexity of the human body is mind-boggling, and we really don't know much about it. I sat there thinking about how in roughly nine months from two tiny cells a perfect human body is created--the ultimate mystical mystery!

    Appreciate your body, whatever state it is in!

        Leta

Gil started with the brain and
worked his way down the nerve tree
in the body.