TRAIL

Squeaky Shoes

There is more to the world than you can take in.

“Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from. A change in where you stand changes everything.”

So said Steve De Shazer, the psychotherapist founder of solution-focused brief therapy. Before that, he worked as a jazz saxophonist. And before that, he was trained as a classical musician.

So he changed where he stood a good few times in his own life.

I guess that’s a big part of why we run trails. It lets us see different things in the

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