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Sea silk, a disputed Greek word, and two ways of reading a shell. A small rectangle in London’s Natural History Museum has a golden-brown face and a darker, felt-like reverse. Folded, it measures 82 by 40 millimetres. Its label identifies cloth woven from the anchoring fibres of a Mediterranean mollusc, Pinna nobilis. The name for those…
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Poor insight. Two words that fit easily into a psychiatric chart. Sometimes they aren’t even a sentence you write. They’re a choice in the mental status exam: good, fair, poor. You pick one and keep going, because there are eleven more fields and the shift is what it is. I’ve picked poor. I picked it…
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I. Letting Go of Autonomy “Nursing is an autonomous profession.” The phrase gets offered as proof of progress, evidence that we are no longer seen as helpers or assistants or extensions of someone else’s expertise. We belong at the table. We earned the seat. The pursuit of autonomy has been hard-won, and it answered real…
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At this year’s National Student Nurses’ Association Annual Convention, delegates adopted a resolution encouraging nursing programs to expand education on safe sleep practices to prevent SIDS. I sat on the Resolutions Committee, where our role is neutrality, so I did not speak on the motion. The conversation has stayed with me since. Like a lot…
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Thresholds are where life negotiates. In an ecosystem they are the zones where organisms adjust in real time to shifting conditions, usually with limited resources. Moss lives there, and has an ancient, embodied capacity to dwell in the unstable. Mosses are among the oldest land plants, and they diverge from the flora that dominates most…
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Threads of Counsel 