look around

“I looked around at some point in high school, around 15 or 16, and was like, ‘All right, I’m not even booking the leads in my 100-person high school.

“It felt very lonely — no one else was doing that. We looked around for allies — other pro-nuclear groups. … There just weren’t very many.”

The former NFL offensive lineman turned Newbury Park head coach looked around at his team celebrating before gazing out at his son, Brady, as he leapt around with his teammates.

But I do look around like, “Ew, what is that in that jar? Ew.”

In L.A., and indeed anywhere, it’s easy to fall into a groove, to stop looking around, to think we’ve done well enough.