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It is like cleaning windows during a storm without ever checking the forecast.
Most window cleaners on the Manhattan manifold don’t waste time guessing whether the rain will come — they climb, cloth in hand, because the glass is already streaked. The scaffolding sways, the wind shifts, yet the act continues. That’s the point: adaptation as architecture.
Prediction is the illusion of control and only the first born have this potential, imho; adaptation is the art of balance and restoring equilibrium...
The good builder does not sketch the skyline’s future outline — they strengthen the joints, check the bolts, and keep moving upward as the structure breathes with the weather.
Those who obsess over tomorrow’s view stand frozen,one eye on the future like a millionaire, blueprint in hand, while the light of the present slips past them. But those who act — who step onto the plank next to the scaffolding , when the wind is blowing new life into your spirit while simultaneously groaning — learn the secretion geometry: stability through movement.
So, the essay that claims to know the future is like a man shouting from the street about where the clouds will drift while the rooftop is dropping water from the pools because the entire building is shaking in an earthquake. Let him shout. The cleaner on the scaffold doesn’t listen; they are already wiping, already adjusting, already learning how to from gardening to landscape architecture as the light breathes thru the glass.
In this way, one discovers the true combinatorics of action: every uncertainty is a pane to polish,
every choice a scaffold joint to tighten,
every gust a test of the manifold’s elasticity and bonding.
And by the time the storm and/or earthquake (Hawaii) passes — or doesn’t — the building gleams, not because one predicted the weather,
but because one kept cleaning through it.