One knot at a time…
Vagabond Voices Writing and Living Prompt
On creativity, community, resilience, creative acts that get us through…
And holding your words in my hands.
Again. Again.
Times when I stared into the vast and open unknown wondered if I would be the abyss but when I felt the tug of fear, I tied a knot in my thread, one upon another until I held this woolen reassurance: words, and love in my hands, shelter.
What are the repetitions that get you through?
It has occurred to me, in the face of everything that we have left behind and everything that still lies ahead…are we not a series of repetitions?
Those tiny things we do again. Again.
That can sound terrifying…but it is also beautiful.
I don’t know if your the kind of person to sink your hands into wool.
Or doodle.
Or read 10 minutes at a time…day after day.
Or if you’re the kind of person who writes haikus.
Or pulls weeds.
Or shapes pots and cups from earth.
Again.
Again.
But it occurs to me that, by doing that simple, beautiful gesture that helps get you through…
We eventually create beautiful things.
The way we tie a knot over and over again until we have something warm and astonishing.
Your writing invitation: Tell us about that thing that gets you through. The tiny habit.
The knots, the doodles, the weeds, the sandpaper…
Tell us in a poem, a piece of fiction, a drawing, a photo.
Be literal, or not.
(And yes, it’s ok to bring us stories that have nothing to do with this topic too!)
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Community Update: The Print Version of our Anthology!!
It feels incredible to hold your words in my hands.
It is something like what happens when you tie that knot again and again, simply because it’s what brings you meaning, purpose, beauty, resilience.
And then you realize you’ve created something beautiful.
You can order a copy here. As authors and artists, we’ve decided to forgo the profits and donate them to Unicef together.
Thanks again to Rodrigo Bahadian, Isabella Moimaz, Mary McGrath, Sylvia Wohlfarth, Gosia Rokicka, LB, James G Brennan, for contributing to this. And to Silvia Perrone for her help with the layout!
