A book by Andrew Bagley
Whose hands
are on your
strings?
Go find a marionette and cut its strings. It doesn't leap off the table and begin its own dance. It falls.
Start with one question
A book by Andrew Bagley
Go find a marionette and cut its strings. It doesn't leap off the table and begin its own dance. It falls.
Start with one questionEvery person is strung. The lines run upward to families, faiths, friendships, workplaces, and the neighborhood's idea of what a person like you does at five-thirty in the morning. The trouble was never the strings. The trouble is that almost nobody can say where each one runs, whose hand is at the top of it, or how many of them lead to the same fist.
The book answers in three parts. This site is where you put it to work. Every tool here ends the same way: by showing you the hand.
Where to start
Most of what shapes you is doing it quietly, which is the whole difficulty. Everything on this site is a way of making one of those rooms visible for long enough to decide whether you want to be in it.