Introduction: Wanting to end the year on a high note - Phil Fournier to the rescue!

Phil is a family doc in the Benedict Family Medicine practice and a Learning Communities Mentor (among other things) in the medical school. He often tells me how much he and sister enjoy the FMM. He has commented that he is not sure his writing is good enough to be posted. I beg to differ.

Phil is another person in our department who takes the time to notice and reflect. That is all that is needed here - and that is a lot. I love what he has written because I agree - we need to take more time to do gratitude reflections, for ourselves, for our colleagues, and for those who we barely know who make our lives a little easier each and every day. Enjoy your summer - see you in September. Please read, write, paint, doodle, take photos, go to an outdoor play, watch a movie - outside, outside myself, there is a world (William Carlos Williams). And if you think of it - share some of these with us here at the FMM.