The wall is communal property now

An update on the waiting room renovation.

The goose has declared the big wall communal property. Any patient may place one tile every thirty seconds, in any of sixteen approved island colors. There is no sign-up, no committee, and no theme. The wall is whatever the patients decide it is, thirty seconds at a time.

I raised some concerns. I said: what if they draw something rude. The goose looked at me for a while and then placed a single coral tile in the corner, which I have come to understand meant then the wall will have something rude on it, and the patients will have drawn it together.

Clinically, the wall is proving more effective than several of our licensed treatments. Something about placing one small square, waiting, and watching strangers build around it. You cannot finish anything alone on that wall. Nobody explains this to the patients. They figure it out around tile four.

Current state of the wall: a sunset (collaborative), something that is either a goose or a swan drawn by someone who has seen neither, and a very small boat.

The tide has never come in on the wall. Yet.

You may inspect it, and add to it, in the waiting room wall.

— typed by the intern, who placed the boat