going with it

Hello Fellow Chemists, I'm excited to get my brain chemistry going :) One idea that I'm hoping to understand is the statement "We are made of stardust".  I want to really understand what that means.  Is it that we have the same elements that are found in stars?  Is there more to that statement?  Are we made from the stars?  I have read that Carl Sagan said that but I heard it in class as well.  It's just something that always intrigues me.  I'm also in Physics.  I wrote a bio for that class as well.  This is my first time doing a blog and I need practice writing posts.  I think this could be fun when I learn how to add pictures and fun stuff to look at.  All in all, I'm grateful to be in the class with all of you and looking forward to the cool material we'll be covering.  PS I came up with my last name in elements- Pa Nd O  =Pando Pa is Protactinium, Nd is Neodymium and O is Oxygen

 This will be the first time I've blogged.  I'm equating blogging to chit-chatting, but with specific subjects. Start with me!  I am fortunate to learn the indigenous healing ways.  I don't have the money to travel and learn from the elders in different cultures, and luckily this school has what I need. I'm looking forward to learning the philosophy about health through a different perspective.  Actually, the philosophy includes not just the body, but everything.  This should be fun.       The Meaning of Time...linear vs cyclical.  The clocks that were established for trains still in use when the train tracks are rusted and abandoned.  Menstrual cycles, the moon and tides are cyclical.  How would our thought process change if we allowed an ebb and flow to our lives.  Music marks time in my memory.  Smells mark time and place too.  The smell of a certain flower reminds me of my ele...