Ilyana Blog

On this day one year ago, Shaun Michael Olson was driving home from choir practice. Close to 10:30 pm he lost control of the car and hit a mailbox that began the ending of his life. He is missed and loved by so many.. me included.

Good Bye, Shauny boy. Dream fine dreams…

A few additions to my earlier presentation. Can you find the torch?:

By ilyanajw

I read that Sarah Palin talked with the main librarian in Wasilla about removing certain books from the shelves. The librarian said “NO” and received a discharge letter a couple of months later. The town’s outcry was so great Palin rescinded the firing.
Here’s a little image playing and making I did. Check below the jump:

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Jill Bolte Taylor tells her experience of having a stroke. with all the clarity and insight of a person who studies the brain for her life’s work.
from the transcript:

I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who has been diagnosed with a brain disorder, schizophrenia. And as a sister and as a scientist, I wanted to understand, why is it that I can take my dreams, I can connect them to my reality, and I can make my dreams come true – what is it about my brother’s brain and his schizophrenia that he cannot connect his dreams to a common, shared reality, so they instead become delusions?

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And in that moment my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side. And I realized, “Oh my gosh! I’m having a stroke! I’m having a stroke!” And the next thing my brain says to me is, “Wow! This is so cool. This is so cool. How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?”

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