Meet Plumbline

A ninety mark practice for noticing one person. You drop the line. A question comes up with it, about them and not about you. You write what you actually noticed, in your own words, and set it as a mark. Then one thing you will do about it, if there is one. A day or two later it asks what came of it. Not whether you did it. What came of it. It asks twice and then it lets go, and nothing anywhere keeps a tally of the ones you left. The line goes down ninety marks. Then it stops, and what you wrote is set in type. The questions go deeper as the line does. Not longer and not more often. More specific, and more exposing to answer honestly. It asks at the start whether you live in the same house or apart, because those two need different questions. Apart gets its own set. What she led with. What she has stopped mentioning. What she sounded like at the end of the call and not the start. It…