Somebody outside tried to drive through a pile of snow into a parking lot and got their car stuck. I've been watching on and off for about 20 minutes; different people stop and try to help, person just keeps trying to dig snow out from under the car. It occurred to me that we all do this kind of reckless estimation in our lives, the "it'll all just work out" leap that keeps us moving "forward", even if it ends up getting us stuck, even if we see the signs that point to "reconsider" or "stop" ahead of us. The antidote, of course, is pausing to consider the variables but nobody likes to stop, nobody likes to slow down and consider much of anything. We all just choose movement, we all just choose it hoping it'll work out, we all just choose luck + movement and think this is how you progress, how you make real change. Real change is measurable though; real change is plottable, plannable, and predictable. Real change is based i...
clinic work, unfolded