6000 people in, several hundred volunteers, thousands of cups of coffee, sandwiches, sales of cards, pictures, works of art, everyone greeted, fed, provided with car parking space, places to sit, music to listen to, all in a space of 7 hours and then all the people left behind need food and space and beds to sleep in and it all works. Go a bit further, millions of drivers piling down motorways, millions, literally millions of people texting, calling, then the people are all shapes and ages and they are walking down busy streets, across lawns, to railway stations, airports and then going back to their houses. Wouldn't you think we might all bump into each other in our cars or bang into each other in the streets or our telephone calls would somehow get jumbled up. Well they don't very often, mostly we all get up, get going, go home and go to bed and somehow everything manages without much help from us.
Someone is in charge of keeping order and we just participate with our limbs and our minds. The organiser of Art in Action said at the start of the great big jamboree that it was important to remember that the real person, the we, the I, does nothing. Resting in that for just a moment here and there connects you not to O2 or Orange, but to something much more powerful and restful and my goodness, that really does the business
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