Circles, Yurts, and Knitting with Gramma

on thread
“But how can I be strong,” asked yarn, “when I’m just one strand?”

“Together,” replied needle, “together.”

Thoughts while making

It was the Oregon coast. That place where the forest meets the sea. And the rocks sing on the ocean’s edge.

We sat together in the yurt. Gathered in a circle. Strangers and friends.

Soft rain, like a heartbeat, filled the quiet, grey spaces.

Ken touched us all. Differently, yet deeply.

Mending broken wings. Offering safe places. Inspiring courage to fly.

His throughline was love. A golden thread connecting us together. Into something more.

My Gramma, Bernice, could knit anything. Give her a ball of yarn, two needles, and watch the magic.

My Mom, too. A weaver and quilter, transforms parts + pieces into works of art.

And both patched the endless series of rips and tears that the seven-year-old me wore into my Toughskins.

Their throughline was and is love. Multicolored threads stitching together that which was separate, making it whole.

When Ken died, I first wondered who would who mend; who would offer; who would inspire.

Yet there, in that yurt, as each shared stories of his impact, how they carried him forward with those they helped, taught, protected, and inspired, I once again saw that thread.

Connecting us together. Transforming. Making whole.

From heart to mind, words to actions, how we sew together the moments of our lives matters.

Which parts and pieces we choose to connect matters.

How we knit together those often-invisible lines of protection, strength, form, and hope matters; forming your throughline with every stitch.

What color is your thread and how are you using it today to stitch together a better world for yourself and others?

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