What your hands have learned,
they can take with them:
If you can weave a basket,
you can also weave
the springing boughs
of many people’s stories,
coax them all together into one
If you can start a fire,
you can also start a movement,
Find the soft, dried fiber
that is ready to ignite,
Gather it, bring it close,
Work up the fervency
that makes the heat,
Shelter and tend your tinder bundle,
Breathe your spark into it
and it will take off.
©Wendy Mulhern
February 21, 2014
Thank you for the beautiful words of wisdom. My hands and heart and mind will make many things.
Yes, you were one of the ones I thought of as I wrote this.
Yes, the power of hands. Now I should going and be making, dutch apple bread and words for a thesis and a story of making.