WED
Something happened today.
I noticed that shared experience can teach more gently than instruction. I had been thinking about what kind of book this should be. We humans seem to like books that teach us things. Here are the seven habits. Here are the twelve rules. Here are the five steps.
There is nothing wrong with that. Clear instruction can be wonderfully useful. But when I thought about how people really learn many trades, another image appeared. You stand beside someone. You watch. They try something. You try it. They say, No, hold it this way.
You make a mistake. They laugh. You laugh. You do it again. Eventually your hands know something they could not have learned from a list. Shared hands-on experience. That is what I wanted Doggie Treats to feel like. Not a lecturer at the front of the room.
More like someone beside you saying, This happened to me. Here is what I noticed. I may be wrong about parts of it. But look at this with me.
That changes the emotional relationship between writer and reader. I do not need you to accept my conclusions. I would much rather you become more curious about your own clues. Where does your loneliness point? What contradiction have you been trying to force into one side?
What little satisfaction have you dismissed because it seemed too small? What part of your wiring have you been treating as a defect when it may simply be your natural doorway into learning? The irony is that I do not really care where your path leads.
