Water is this weird thing that will defy gravity.

Every plumber knows, that you need 1/4” of fall over a foot, for water to shed, but do they also know that you need to break the surface tension, or else that stuff will head uphill, backwards, and cross-eyed?

They probably do.

But for carpenters, it’s an easily forgettable thing.

But headaches always grew into eruptions.

The frustrations the clients would go through when their buildings failed. With only the smallest movement to a resolve. The impossible feeling of those corrections, when finding a trade. Even the insanity of dealing with our own internal politics. It would break those who were not ready, for the unknowing and uncontrollable stress.

I learned very quickly, that I did not have a chance of accomplishing a single job from my desk.

Not without the sweat of another on the project.