Work can be a source of living connections. But not just any type of work. The work that connects is the kind we can throw ourselves into: work that fully engages our being and our talents and that contributes to the common good. It is work that leaves room for initiative and creativity – work that makes you want to sing! At the other extreme is task-oriented work that is dominated by an obsession with output. The kind of work that isolates rather than connects us.

Whatever the nature of our work, we must take great care not to let it become our “home” to the extent that it replaces our other connections: to family, to friends, to our country…even to the mountains, as Sarah Townsend describes so eloquently in her article, Topography.



Source : 1001 Drawings (website)