“To simplify complications is the first essential of success…”
George Earle Buckle
The word complication comes from the Latin Complicare, to fold together. This makes sense, something with many folds is more complicated than a flat object. Most dictionary definitions take the obvious route of describing a complication as an action that makes something more complicated. Complications have very different meanings in my life. My new passion for mechanical watch assembly, often involves complications and often foul language. A watch complication is a function other than keeping time. Day, date, year, moon phase, dive or chronograph being typical examples. More functions means more assembly, means more swearing. My current work life also involves complications, those related to surgery. These can also make me swear, but are more tricky to spot and even harder to classify. All surgery leads enviably to complications, but with highly variable frequency. Assessing whether they are beyond misfortune or statistical probability is the difficulty. You might even say complicated. #irarelyswearatwork #letsmakelmonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 