What’s your favourite mass media story of the power of occupation to restore or maintain health?
I’ll start – “the Knitting Sutra” by Lydon and “Slow Dance” by Bonnie Sherr Klein. And of course movies – “Forever Young” and The Full Monty” come to mind. What have you read or watched lately that just screamed OT to you?

I love this from Hocking about the Romantic notions still calling to us in OT practice: It was a sense that there should be more to practice than bath boards and shower assessments, work simplification and skills training; that there ought to be a place for acknowledging the trials and heartbreakings of disability, along with the triumph of recreating a life.

This is such a lovely place to write in. Peaceful views but I’m far from tranquil. Still working on my proposal for my doctoral research. I want to use narrative inquiry to explore “occupations as means” in OT practice. I think it is what makes OT unique and yet it appears to be challenging to do. I’m looking for some “positive deviants” who practice OT this way in spite of challenges. Wrote an identity memo this week. One of the questions to answer was “what in this research are you most afraid of?” I think it’s that I’ll not find anyone practicing this way. Then what? It will change what I say in the classroom. And it will break my heart.

Spending a week writing in a quiet house on the edge of a gorge. Here’s the view when I look up from my computer: