March 23, 2021

🪢 03.22.21

Stretching, serpentine. Some nights, I fall asleep while learning how to tie different types of knots with a piece of shoelace—motions to keep the hands from fossilizing. Figure eight, clove hitch, bowline, reef knot. It's an odd hobby to keep, but I don't learn these for any utilitarian purpose. The patterns are elegant enough.

The lovely thing about practicing knots is that they can be undone. Pondering processes of creating that involve deconstruction; proccesses of healing that simply mean loosening the knot in your stomach.

—P