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In a small farm town there is a girl named Fern... 

You may remember her from Charlotte's Web, 

where she rescued Wilbur and cared for him until 

he was old enough to go to a real farm. Fern's 

compassion and caring nature lead to her to 

become a nurse, and now Fern is back in school to 

get her   doctorate degree at The University of 

Arizona!

Fern spends most her time studying and 

reading for school. Needing a change of 

scenery, she often comes out to the pig pen 

and reads with the animals.

One day Fern was given an assignment for

her Nursing Theory Class. She was asked to

explore and identify with one of the various 

philosophies she studying and boy was she 

lost! 

As she listened to Fern read, Charlotte soon

realized that Fern was probably going to 

cover Critical Realism for her project and 

she wanted to help. 

The next day Fern returned to the 

pig pen to continue her reading. She 

found a web that Charlotte had 

spun.  

The web had writing it in. It said the 

word Ontology.   Fern thought 

carefully about the word and about 

her readings.   She soon realized that 

Charlotte had listed Ontology as one 

of the tenets of Critical Realism, 

trying to help her with her project.

Fern recalled from her reading that 

Ontology is the study of being. She also 

remembered that in critical realism, 

perceptions and experiences paired 

with events we experience help to 

 form values and norms (Reed, 2105). 

The next day as Fern returned to the pen, she found that 

Charlotte had left her the word Observe.

She thought to herself, "Well there is so much that I 

observe here on the farm. I can see the birds flying, the 

cows eating grass, and Wilbur rolling in the mud. What 

does this have to do with nursing philosophy?" Then she 

remembered "Pam's Notes". 

Observation was in what she could see with her eyes, what 

she couldn't see with her eyes, and how those things she 

had seen or not seen had caused things to occur. 

Just like Charlotte's web. She could see the web but how 

did it get there, how did Charlotte know the

 words she needed to understand?

Fern awakened the next morning trying to sort 

her previous night's dreams.   She could only 

recall strange scenes of different weather 

patterns.... rain, thunder, lightening, bright 

sunshine, cloudiness, cool fall weather and of 

course beautiful white snow! 

This was all so puzzling to her. With all of the 

work she had to do for her theory   class, (not 

to mention her other courses), she certainly 

did not need another   concept or process to 

"figure out"! 

She headed to her favorite spot under 

a tree to reading for class.   As she 

passed by Charlotte's web, she 

observed another word, STABLE, had 

been   perfectly spun. As Fern 

continued reading, she came across 

the third tenet of Critical Realism, 

which she summarized as stability.

Fern began to make a 

connection about her dream..... 

stability!   She was amazed as 

she began to realize that in 

spite of how the weather varies 

and seasons change, that hings 

on the farm were incredibly 

stable! Year after year, season 

after season, even   the ants, 

mice, butterflies, squirrels and 

grasshoppers still populated 

this wonderful place!!!

The reality of the farm having its own 

level of     organization and inner- 

connectedness gave Fern an entire new 

perspective.   She loved this place! Fern 

gained an entire new level of 

appreciation for Dr. Reed's "Pam 

Notes"!   Fern's day had ended on such a 

positive note, she looked forward to 

what she would find   tomorrow.

Excitement and joy filled Fern's spirit as she headed 

to the farm to work on more of her assignments for 

school.   Of course she wondered, "What will I find 

in CHarlotte's web today?"

Finding the word "REALITY" left her quite 

bewildered. As she pondered this word, Fern took a 

long hard look at Charlotte's web, and thought 

about what caused it to appear so intricate, detailed 

and yet so beautiful, and real!! She concluded, that 

only Charlotte could   experience doing this as a 

spider- that was Charlotte's reality.

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