titles tender_square i scan verbose contracts spanning thousands of dead trees, and the minutiae of building codes and detailed project specs. people with important titles grace the pages: architects and engineers, consultants and purchasing managers, directors and ceos. i consider their lives and career trajectories, these giants responsible for the materials and structures that contain us, that have shaped this city in decades before and decades to come. i am an eternal child in their looming shadows, a little girl with pigtails and a calculator playing office, nearly forty. and i know that what matters is the kingdom i'm constructing and living within; no bridge can link this internal treasure to the exterior realm of these royal designations. 230721 what's it to you? who go blather from