Team and Solo

Is it better to go it alone or team up?  The question has arisen so many times lately and in such different contexts, that I feel the need to take a good look at it, turn it around and give it a whirl.

I find that potting has been firmly in the back seat for a long while.  I have ideas, I sketch, I make space and time, I plan and yearn to go to work, but there is always some other activity pulling me away from the worktable. And all these 'urgent' things have to do with other people.

Last time I spent some time with the clay, I produced a series of objects that I was very pleased with - as a starting point to something; at the same time, I noticed that I started to receive a series of emails asking why it was that I was not responding, or turning up, or pulling my weight...

I don't actually resent this or find it irksome: I feel very energised to be working with others. It is just that I seem to be doing a lot of the organising and planning, and enjoying being thanked for it.