Being Shared

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

(Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

Something today, perhaps some small thing, will catch your eye, your heart, your funny bone. Film it, photograph it, write about it, document it.

Tomorrow, look for that same small thing. Note how it changed. Note if it didn't. Record it again.

The next day, look for another thing that is, in some respect (however finely you must stretch the point, similar to the first thing. Record that, too.


Continue in this way for oh, maybe, 45 years. At the end, pick the recordings that speak most clearly to you, and compile them into a show, a book, a film, an object.


You will have produced something that only you could produce, and it will be a beautiful body of work.


Then share it.  


And share the work of the people you admire who do the same thing.