
01/07/2025
Work is what we do by the hour. Welding car bodies on an assembly line, washing dishes, computing taxes.. these are work. Labour, on the other hand, sets its own pace. We may get paid for it, but it’s harder to quantify: writing a poem, raising a child, invention in all forms — these are labours. Work is an intended activity that is accomplished through the will, but labour has its own schedule.
It’s been quite the journey, but there is no technology, no time-saving device that can alter the rhythms of creative labour. And in building our body of labour, we have also built a body of affection with the people who have helped us, and, like any great relationship, we know that it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
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