It’s so good to be home after so many months away. The tour was quite marvelous with wonderful hosts, over 600 students in 16 classes, four Pacific and six Atlantic crossings making a total of 67,000 flight miles (108Kms), which is the equivalent of 2.7 times around the globe. The two central tenets of this practice are to cultivate a feeling of gratitude and constantly to ask how I can be of service? and this trip was full of both. I was in a constant state of awe and gratitude about the medicine, and people left the classes feeling they can dive in to practicing the material..
When I got home from Spain, I opened a jury summons that Andrew had stuck to the fridge, and the next morning, less than 10 hours after arriving home, I sat in the gallery with 180 other people waiting to see how this would unfold. Two hours later I was impaneled on a jury and engaged in an entirely different type of service. But perhaps it’s not so different. All service is about clarity. In the clinic, when with a patient, the practitioner works toward a diagnosis and that can only be done with a clear mind.
If, for example, the patient presents with difficulty breathing, the practitioner has work to do before clarity is achieved. First, the most important question: When did it begin? If it began when the patient opened a moldy pot that had been forgotten at the back of the fridge, then we have more clarity. Or, if the patient says it began after suddenly losing a dear friend, again, we have more clarity. If they say the sudden loss of a dear friend happened long ago, again clarity is emerging. The treatments will be utterly different, but we won’t know how until we take pulses. The person with the moldy pot might have a weak spleen pulse, showing an inability to overcome the influx of pathogens, or kidney pulse might not to be financing the spleen in the first place. The person who lost a close friend might have a tremendous tightening in the heart pulse, or maybe there is no communication between heart and kidneys, showing shock. The person who remembered it as a young child will have pendulous pulses. Treatment possibilities for difficulty breathing are as numerous as the causes and contexts. Clarity of mind ensures the arrival of a successful diagnosis.
And in the courtroom, it’s clarity of mind that allows a grand jury to vote to indict or not. Really, one’s whole life can be framed as service for which we need our clear presence of being. People want to be of service. It’s a natural part of being human, yet people sometimes can’t connect into it. I notice that the jury is a great place for waking that up. When I spoke to some of the 23 jury members it was clear that there were some GUDCPs. GUDCP? It’s a term invented by Andrew meaning Greatly Underutilized Deeply Capable People. These are people who very quietly feel that they have so much to offer, yet are greatly underutilized, meaning that they are under-serving. They long to serve but they haven’t found their way. It was a joy to see them quietly at home and strong in such an environment. The world is full of opportunities, especially in the unexpected.
Ann Cecil-Sterman
Manhattan, New York City
December 2, 2025.
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