The Invisible Details
from Margins & Meaning with John Wilson Hosted by John Wilson
I wrote a song about the bench. Forty three years of it. The cases nobody sees, the hours nobody bills, the decisions you make when there's nobody left in the building to ask. I put it to music, and then I built a video around it frame by frame, and it took a lot longer than I want to admit. This episode is that video. It's not about a patient, though there's one in it. It's not really about me either, though my hands are all over it. It's about what happens to everything you learn if you never hand it to anybody. There's a moment in the middle where I'm working an arch, and I set the handpiece down, and the bench sits empty for a second, and then a younger pair of hands picks the work up and keeps going. One shot. No cut. That's the whole song right there. The line that started all of it was take the hours, take all of them. I meant that for the tech coming up behind me. Not for a course, not for a fee. You see it every day if you're looking. Somebody at your bench who's stuck on something you solved fifteen years ago. Protect your margins. Protect your meaning.
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