Open Hands · Week 4 · Tuesday · HURT It was a Tuesday evening and somebody had left shoes in the doorway again, and he heard a voice come out of his own mouth and he knew immediately whose it…
Whose Voice That Was
The Sentence in the Will
Open Hands · Week 4 · Monday · HURT The will said what he already knew, and somehow that made it worse rather than better. His sister gets the house; he gets a third of what is left over after…
He Says It to Their Faces
Open Hands · Week 4 · Sunday · HURT I want to start with what actually happened to Joseph, because we tend to skip over it on the way to the nice ending. His brothers took his coat off him…
Why Me
Open Hands · Week 3 · Saturday · INSECURITY On Sunday I said that a man who builds on credentials has a particular problem waiting for him. Here is mine, in the words it actually uses. These people are paying…
Taped Inside the Drawer
Open Hands · Week 3 · Friday · INSECURITY There is a card taped to the inside front panel of her desk drawer. The corners have gone soft. She has had some version of it for most of her working…
Still Consulting the Old File
Open Hands · Week 3 · Thursday · INSECURITY They asked him to lead it. He said no inside four seconds, and the reason he gave out loud was a conflict in his diary, which was not true. The real…
A Document About Her
Open Hands · Week 3 · Wednesday · INSECURITY The report card came home on a Tuesday and she felt it in her stomach before she had finished the first line. Not worry for him. She knows what worry for…
Six Minutes of Evidence
Open Hands · Week 3 · Tuesday · INSECURITY He is nine weeks into his first job managing people, and he has not given a short answer in a meeting since he started. Somebody asks where a number came from….
The One She Left Up
Open Hands · Week 3 · Monday · INSECURITY She gives a post about ninety minutes. That is the window she has worked out, without ever writing it down: if it has not moved by then, it is not going…
A Greeting He Had Not Earned
Open Hands · Week 3 · Sunday · INSECURITY You need to know one thing about a winepress to feel this passage properly. A winepress is a pit, cut down into rock, with walls. You press grapes in it. You…