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Art Credit Clark Reflection Series Prompt: Write about a rich sensory experience- a time where you experienced touch, sound, smell, sight, taste.... in a particularly vivid, striking way. Response:  The concrete was cool, But the air was not. And the air between us was most definitely not. I don't remember why, but I scooted closer to you. And I don't remember how but in one swift movement You pulled me up onto your lap. I had never felt so light. Light maybe because your strength made me Feel so physically small, But more likely because of the life you breathed into me. When we kissed for that first time, It was the feeling of your lips. They were different. The feeling of your lips On my teeth Because for some silly reason I just couldn't stop smiling. With just one inhale, I breathed all of you in. Your soul running through my entire body, Every inch of me, touching you, Now tingling with air and with life.

Alongside a group of my peers, I did something brave today. We did something brave today. Background Information: As many of you know, I have the honor and privilege of serving as UIWSOM's SGA President. As part of this role, I also serve on the Council of Osteopathic Student Government Presidents (COSGP) and as a Student Delegate for the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA). I spent this past week in Chigaco, Illinois at the Summer COSGP Conference and at the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) House of Delegates (HOD). At our COSGP Conferences, we work on professional/leadership development and collaborate with presidents and representatives from every other osteopathic medical school in the nation to develop ideas and solve problems to collectively improve each and every one of each other's schools. This was my third conference with COSGP, and it was just as energizing and inspiring as before. We developed ideas and initiatives to bring back to our schools f...

Clark Reflection Series - Prompt:  What happens when “Time Stands Still”? Take some time to reflect upon moments in your life when time has stopped. What or who caused/causes time to stand still for you? How did you feel in that moment, and what have you learned or realized from that experience? Response:  The first boy I fell in love with had the bluest of eyes, curly curly hair, & mini pecas all over his face. Yeah, I know. Dreamy. He took me on this date to Gruene once. We ate at the Gristmill, got some ice cream from the corner store, walked around boutiques. Y ou know, all that cheesy stuff. At one of these massively expensive boutiques, Johnny Cash came on.   And we stopped.   He pulled me in close and we danced. Even though he never danced. We slow danced without fear or all the "You break it, you buy it" signs. Slow danced while I stared into his  beautiful and he into my quite ordinary eyes.   And time stopped. So ...

Written for my Humans of UIWSOM blog post. A couple of months ago, I watched an amazingly strong woman tell her story to the entire Council of Osteopathic Student Government Presidents. She stood in front of a large room, full of the leaders from each osteopathic medical school across the nation and showed an immense amount of strength by choosing to be vulnerable – to be vulnerable in order to empower others. Over the next few weeks, I watched e v e r y  s i n g l e testimony in the case against the monster called by Larry Nassar. I watched each young woman tell their story. And tell it loudly. Recently, a friend of mine told me her story. And although her story was told behind closed doors, it was told with the same amount of strength and power as exemplified by all of the women who I watched share their stories with the nation. And so finally, here I am. I am not nearly as brave, not nearly as strong, as I sit here behind my screen. But here I am, to finally (and very v...