Creatively Aging

“To work together with others to achieve  a common purpose” (so says Wikipedia), literally “with work” from Late Latin via French. The word now has an odd whiff, for it acquired the sense of  treasonous involvement with the enemy during World War Two.

On the other hand, I’ve been having many collaborative experience recently and am being reminded of the incredible power collaboration usually generates. Perhaps in my continuing thoughts about the good, challenging  Group-Stitching Mantra workshop  are really as much about the power of collaboration as anything else. Something special happens when people make ‘common cause’ and work together. My grandmother would say ‘many hands make light work’ and that’s true. But more than that many hands make magic. Honestly one person stitching while reciting a mantra aloud seems foolish; when many do it, it’s powerful.