Salve

This collection the thinkings found amongst these pages are the ointment to heal; the writings to restore and the words to protect. This mind's rawness - raw pain confusion and beauty soothed with craft. Christina L. Halstead is a medical student at University of Virginia School of Medicine soon pursuing pediatrics. She processes celebrates and commemorates the human experience - found rich in nature in relationships in family in travel and in medicine - through poetry. Here she shares her reflections and self-discoveries inspired by her own narrative as well as those first told by others.