Collaboration
'Many hands make light work'. So the English like to say to inspire their children to help with chores. What a bore! Perhaps, though, there's a deeper meaning to be found here: the work is lighter not just because the end-goal is achieved more quickly, but because the product of so many minds (or hands!) is novel. Achieved dynamically, it is light insofar as it shines with the brightness of originality - whether that be revealed in the outcome or the process to get there. The endless solo push of a boulder is, by contrast, repetitive, lonely and taxing. It is heavy work. Perhaps we often burden ourselves so because this is, as Kundera suggests, favourable over an 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'. If alone we cannot grow towards brightness without being blinded, or immerse our roots without feeling tethered, then life calls for collaboration. In an openness to the ideas of others; in the surprise and creativity of collaboration, the lightness of being can reveal itself as a connecting force. As a vitality that outstretches any one mind (or indeed its imagination). Following this philosophy, I celebrate being(s) in all it's (their) radiance through the contributions of friends & family.
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