At The Table

Each person who pulls up a chair empties their bag onto the table top. It does not matter what falls out – egos and insecurities, diaries and budgets, passion and promises – what matters is how much of it there is: schedules spilling onto the floor; reputations clinging on by their fingertips; hierarchies squashed beneath unmanageable targets. Space must be made, in amongst it all, to start something new.
 

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