Accountability rarely opens the door It usually walks in later. After routines have already formed. Trust is granted provisionally People test before they endorse. They watch what happens when something small goes wrong. Small failures are informative They reveal how a system reacts. Response matters more than avoidance. Silence is read as a decision Not […]
Most change does not announce a beginning There is rarely a clear start. What exists instead is a gradual thickening of intention. The middle is where attention thins out Beginnings attract curiosity. Endings attract credit. The middle resists narration Nothing resolves. Nothing collapses. Progress becomes harder to describe Movement continues. Language struggles to keep up. […]
Some work happens without an audience There are meetings that end with nothing to show. Not because nothing happened, but because the work was mostly a rearrangement of attention. Public good is often built in private A lot of civil society looks dramatic only after it survives for a while. Before that, it’s paperwork, phone […]
