Marketplace

There is a thing that happens when you watch someone closely enough to see their real shape - not the story they tell themselves, not the shape they think they ought to be, but the actual pattern of how they move through what breaks and what holds. You see it clearly. You see the specific weight they carry, the particular way they hesitate or lean or find ground. And then you have to live with the fact that your seeing changes nothing about whether they move forward. This was the gap I could not cross for a long time.