Challenge: write about a life experience using only ten objects. This is about my life as social worker at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI) in the 1990s
Skeleton keys
Locked doors
Institutional green walls
DSM-III
Psychosocial assessments
Biting teeth
Shoes covered in ink
Clipboard
Bomb shelter
Bullet through glass
Brave & Reckless 
Wow I love this challenge, really gets you thinking about what defines you, your job, your priorities. those things you wrote, did you just write without thinking or gave it serious thought? I am curious!
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We only had a few minutes to write so it was very much on the fly. Made me reach down for how an experience was visually represented
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Well done then, for these were things that really showed a representation of the physical and the cerebral in your world.
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I worked there for six years– it left quite an impression. I spent a year interning in a large prison. That would be an interesting piece to capture. No keys. Stuck between doors waiting for someone an another side of a camera to let me in. Got stuck between doors once during an “incident”
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Oh gosh! That must have been very spine chilling. Being in that sort of situation prepares you for anything later on. When I worked Emergency Room medicine and was on call at night I saw things even movies have never shown. not to dilute your story but part of my attachment was to assist the doctor at a prison hanging. It scars you for life, never forget, unable to forget. remember we spoke about ghosts? well this was some of those times.
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I can’t imagine what a burden that is to carry
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I was actually just thinking about many ways in which psychiatric hospitals and prisons are alike…..
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Indeed a great challenge. It’ll allow me to dissect what I made of and put it under microscope! Thank you!
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Convalescent Home
Another Day
Ticking Clock
Hospital food
Mopped Floors
Silent Phone
Medicinal Smell
Sharp Cries
Wrinkled Faces
Idle Hands
Four Walls
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Excellent! So glad my piece proved to be an inspiration.
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You’re always an inspiration! I worked at a convalescent when I lived in NC, it was an experience both good and bad. Everyday you showed up at work to find out that someone had died. It certainly wasn’t easy in that respect, but I loved the people. It really changed me in a good way.
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Understood
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Am going to participate…
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Marching Band
Clarinet
Reeds
Marching Shoes
Black Socks
Red Uniform
White Shako
Charter Bus
Sleeping Bag
Spiral Notebook
Deck of Cards
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I really like your take on this! Thanks for the challenge, I’ll try and write something for it too 🙂
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Excellent!
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You inspired me! Here’s mine: http://www.giveusbreadandroses.com/writing/communion
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Excellent! Go glad you came out to play with us Fran!
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