{"product_id":"thehumanpart","title":"The Human Part","description":"\u003cp\u003eI worked crisis in Sagebrush City, a desert city in the Southwest. I brought my professional brain to work every day. My clients kept going around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names have been changed, and so have a lot of the details, to protect everyone, including me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKorey, one of my clients, showed up with his phone, one earbud, and instructions. \"Left ear. Not right. You need the left so it gets straight to your feelings.\" He'd found a Warren Zevon song the night before, and he needed somebody to hear the song with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This song ain't for your professional brain,\" Korey told me. \"This is for the human part.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the song ended, Korey said, \"You know what scares me? Not dying. Nobody cares about dying. Happens all the time. What scares me is disappearing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn old champion boxer with dementia kept swinging at caregivers he didn't recognize. Another home-care agency had already quit. So our home-care business sent men in sweats who called him Coach and said they'd come to train. They cooked because fighters have to eat right. They handed him his pills because a fighter has to stay sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe stayed in his own house, with his own photographs and his own chair. We didn't cure anything. We found a door his mind would still open, and we sent good people through the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur clients had big plans. A food truck. A Christian motorcycle ministry. One man planned to become a dolphin trainer. We lived in the desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody lacked ambition. They lacked Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuccess usually meant the catastrophe had been delayed long enough to lose momentum. Every now and then, a client put together three Tuesdays in a row.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Human Part\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of ten Sagebrush City books. Read them in any order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEbook (epub), delivered right after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded free: \u003c\/strong\u003eJukebox, a short bonus Sagebrush City book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality Services Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54152600387768,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/4459\/2824\/files\/The_Human_Part_1500x1200T.png?v=1790882451","url":"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/products\/thehumanpart","provider":"Reality Services Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}