Welcome!

After attending the ground breaking ceremony in October, 2010, Mary Ellen Ipiotis was inspired to create a BLOG about the massive desert rose sprouting forth on sacred grounds in Sandoval County.

C'mon in! Please make yourself at home. Join me with your commentary, questions, stories, photos, video's, any information you would like to share... about the new medical center, the land it is on, the people and places in the area, anything you think people would like to know.

Mary Ellen is listening and will be on the look out for you ~

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!

To our mother's, who love us beyond measure, who carried and cried for us, who made sacrifices and stayed-up with us all night when we were sick, who laugh at our corny jokes and would do anything to make us happy when we were sad.  To the one's who stuck by us through thick and thin, good and bad days and in all the way's only a mother can show her loyalty and love to her child.
Thank you for everything, for the hard, soft, simple and best lessons learned, for the most memorable moments, endearing and tender, the special times we can only recall with a lump in our throat and a tear in our eye. Today, we think of the reasons our mother's mean so much to us and why we refer to them as irreplacable, so important and precious.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Growth


Change your mind, change your heart,
change the results of your next move.
Awaken the senses and revive the soul.
Growth is good and reflects a renewed sense of hope 
as the weary spirit is lifted and refreshed.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Spring

Behold, my friends, the spring is come;
the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun,
and we shall soon see the results of their love!
~ Sitting Bull
The Great Medicine Man and Chieftain of the Sioux Nation.


Monday, March 05, 2012

Anatomy Of A Hospital

Starting with the A's- A look-see at some of the positions, people, places and things that go into the creation of the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center; Administrators, Admitting & Registration Personal, Accounts Payable overseers, Ambulatory Care Specialists and Anesthsiologists. Every role, vital to the success and purpose of the medical center.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

There is something about Valentine's Day that evokes a great deal of emotion; it can be of course a very romantic, loving, kind and thoughtful day. It can prompt a sense of longing, isolation, regret even bitterness. It is a wonderful time of year when you have the pleasure of being on the receiving end of a valentine. It can also be a sad time for someone who would rather skip past the whole notion of it,  especially if any element of dissapointment would interfere with it's sweet, soft and simple nature.

It goes like that with any landmark day... ignore them, look upon some of them with dread or get into them... certain days on the calender mark particular times of our lives and help us to remember for better or for worse.
We hope for the better. ♥

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Stars

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"We are one species.
We are star stuff harvesting star light"
Carl Sagan
American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner for non-fiction & What Jack Hanna and Steve Irwin are to the animal kingdom and Yo-Yo Ma is to the chello and classical music... Carl Sagan is to astronomy and science. (9.9.34 - 12.20.96) 

"I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars ... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me"
 ~ Carl Sagan

One more thing, that for whatever reason, this blogger feels compelled to share is something to consider, also something Dr Sagan said, it goes like this;

"Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth.
Each of those worlds is as real as ours and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history: what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization and perhaps our species as well."
~ Carl Sagan

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Due Date

The anticipation grows as the hospital nears completion. It is kind of like everyone eagerly awaiting the arrival of a brand new baby. The waiting and wondering about how everything will be, will the child be healthy and happy, have all it's senses, fingers and toes, curly hair or any hair? Will it look like this person or that one? Will the newborn that is almost ready for delivery- continue to evolve into the best it can be? 
"God Bless The Child" and pray this miracle will always be safe, properly cared for, loved and respected, in turn, treats all people with kindness and is a blessing constantly striving to be good and on the ready for whatever life has in store, and is able to stand tall with strength, courage, confidence and knowledge far into the future. ~