These are the ordinary decisions of an active and growing professional practice. They have nothing to do with Daniel and everything to do with the work I have built over the past two years. The work would exist whether or not the Northbridge situation had happened. It existed during the eighteen months when Daniel was describing me as someone who wasn’t working. It was always there.
That is the fact I want to end on, because it is the most important one: the work did not need the drama to exist. The drama did not create the practice or validate it. The practice was valid the entire time, doing what practices do: growing through referrals and client relationships and accumulated expertise, visible to anyone who was looking in the right directory.
Daniel’s family had been looking in the wrong direction, because Daniel had been pointing them there. Now they are looking in the right one.
I am here. I have been here all along.
## Last Things
There are a few last things I want to say.
The first is about Northbridge specifically. The company, separate from everything personal, has been a good client. Linda Cho runs a thoughtful training program and is open to feedback in the way that good training professionals are: she wanted to know what worked and what didn’t and she asked genuinely. The follow-on engagement with the work order process has been interesting work, the kind that has real stakes for the people doing the jobs affected. I hope they implement the recommendations well. I will check in during the six months and do what I can to support it.