Prick Your Skin, Lick Your Blood

Beneath the fabric of your everyday reality lies a rich tapestry. 

A tapestry made from decades of thread, woven into a glorious whole.

Those threads unspool from a rich, heady blend of your wants, desires, preferences, interests, tastes, ideas, beliefs, and values—dictating the story of your life.

And if those threads are left unexamined, left unexplored, left to their own devices, you might find yourself feeling like you’re stuck in a story someone else is writing. 

You might feel like you “just end up in” jobs, relationships, situations, and circumstances, rather than having made a sovereign choice for yourself.

Dancing to the beat of these subconscious whims is like going for a joyride in a fast car, but a ghost is working the pedals, turning the wheel, and shifting gears.

Imagine, being on the ride of your life… with no sense of agency or control.

But just as an author can pick up their pen and reshape a long-unfolding story, you too can change the composition of your tapestry. You can restitch, remove, and weave new threads of your own choosing, of your own design.

However, reweaving your tapestry is no easy task.

For each new thread you wish to add, you’ll have to let go of an old one.

For each new design you wish to stitch, you’ll have to kiss an existing one goodbye.

Swapping one colour for another is a delicate, slow process. You’ll need plenty of patience. A willingness to prick your fingers, lick the blood that spills, and carry on.

There will be threads knotted into your sense of self, cinched around your neck, or even looped into the very essence of who you are. You’ll need to be brave, daring, and bold to go near these ones—which are often the most meaningful, most impactful.

Some will need tearing out. Others, but a gentle tug.

And you can’t just work on your tapestry for a few weeks before shoving the thing in a drawer. Not if you want the changes you’re making to root, to hold, to last.

But if you’re willing to commit, you can change everything.

Everything can be placed on the Loom of You.

The Loom of You will welcome all that you bring to the table. The more threads you tug on, the more surprises you’ll find, buried beneath what you once thought was solid, woven ground. Which can be scary… and awfully, deeply, gorgeously thrilling.

You can reweave what your work looks like. You can breathe new life into how your relationships look and feel, or who they’re with. You can alter how your body looks and feels to wake up and live in. You can adjust where and how you spend time.

You should know though, the Loom of You isn’t always stable. Sometimes you might spin blood instead of thread, or a leg might go wonky and cause a spill. Some threads will be more rooted and entangled than others. Some you won’t want to ever look at.

But if you choose to pluck at your tapestry’s threads…

You can become the main character of your life’s story and the author, the loom and the weaver, the garden and the gardener. You can live the story you’ve dreamt of.

And wouldn’t that be just fucking wild?

With love from the forest,

~ Alexander