Precarious
Balance is underappreciated. Certain yoga poses involve standing on one foot, or inverting on one's head, or challenging gravity in some other way. Their difficulty is as much psychological as physical, requiring staying focused and resisting a seemingly innate urge to topple. Developing and maintaining equilibrium within the tension, to resist tumbling back to the static and familiar, is the challenge. Sometimes you have to trust without knowing. Many of these posts start with only a phrase and a feeling, not a predefined direction. Most client projects begin with a fiction of certainty and direction that I used to take for truth. Few have concluded according to initial plans, which I take as success. Pivoting and adapting as experience and learning is accumulated is far more important than fealty to a conjectured future. The constructive tension is between direction and detour, not allowing one or the other to dominate. Balance in underappreciated. The initial phase, whether I know it or not when I start, can contain everything. The joy and labor is in the unpacking. The balancing yoga poses exist, are seemingly created, at the apex of opposing forces. For years, I've had a recurring dream of being at an airport, a place that has always been magical for being nowhere but rather a gateway to other more tangible and meaningful destinations. Often, when projects go well, clients will comes to sense uncertainty, realize the ground beneath their feet is less certain, less there than they thought. Reassuring them can be difficult, the impulse for solidity and familiarity are powerful. It's easier to reject the ambiguity, eschew the gateway, and topple. I don't have an easy antidote. Balance is underappreciated.
