Evidence

Windows open, cat sleeping in the sun, cardinal singing his heart out, I wonder what evidence I will draw from today. I laugh at all the evidence-based therapy skills I have learned. I know they look different applied in my particular office.

Each one of us

Has her own interpretation

Of what she has learned.

We think

We apply it

Purely.

There is no such thing

As pure

Only

Well-intentioned

Maybe

Recognizable.

It’s a secret,

A not-so-well-kept secret:

The evidence is important

To be sure

But in its purity,

It’s only

Where we begin.