Turning Towards Love

While I inch along with my creative community-building projects, I am thinking of creativity in a new way. Maybe it’s an old way. The oldest way, possibly. Creative as in sustaining life.

This winter, I feel I am being called into preparation Though I’m not exactly sure what will happen. I am being called to listen for ways to prepare. To pay attention to and re-acquaint myself with what I already know, especially that which I’ve discarded or pushed under the rug. I’m engaging with textiles and the stories they hold and I’m leaning into “folds and folding” as a metaphor.

Folds hold what we don’t want to look at as well as what we are searching for.

Folds call us into a practice of preparedness, setting the ground, being ready.

Readying through folding and practices of folding textiles ask us to see ahead, to anticipate a future interaction/response/engagement.

What are you listening for this winter? How are you readying the ground for life to thrive?