Practicing Solutions

At least once a month I gather in a Zoom room with other Covid-Conscious individuals and we do jigsaw puzzles, on a collaborative website, while chatting about all sorts of things. This collective action is vital for many reasons. One of which is that it allows for practice with solvable problems. Many things these days are immense and complicated. And if I meet up with others and we each move pieces towards their connected places, the puzzle is solved. Some people show up and just watch the pieces being moved for various reasons (technology glitches, physical limitations); this is welcome too. Community keeps the puzzle progressing. These collaborative efforts are a practice of hope. While the premise of a jigsaw puzzle is its solvability, it requires trust that all the pieces are present (easier to control in a digital setting), and that they will construct the image successfully. I highly recommend using the Jigsaw Explorer website to puzzle with some friends and "practice the scales of rejoicing" as Auden would say.