On the Hook

“Let’s let the client decide,” Brandon said. Willie agreed.

“No,” I said, showing a little more annoyance than I intended. “It’s up to me.”

They mocked me for sounding high and mighty, as good friends should. But they know me well enough to know I didn’t mean it like that. They’re right. It would be easier to ask the client whether we should exaggerate the serpentine curve of the path or move people more directly through the garden.

But that’s my call. That’s why they hired me.

It might work. It might not.

It’s a privilege to be on the hook like that.