Weird Lists: for those needing gentleness

Ingredients.

This is an invitation to a very simple act of creation. The result can stand as a work of art on its own, and it can also serve as a source text to spark expanding creations (see the Cauldron for more on that).

We'll call this act "Weird Lists." These will not be linear, ordinary task or shopping lists. They are a chance to start something expansive in a short amount of time.

Choose one of the list-titles below. Let interest and impulse guide you--what draws you in, in this moment?

Take out a piece of paper and a pen. Write your list-title at the top of the paper. Set a timer for seven minutes.

Start the timer. Write.

When the timer goes off, put your pen down. Take three deep breaths. Read your list aloud. If you want, take a photo of it and share it here to be posted on the @sharedritualsacrossspacetime Instagram, and the Potions page. If you want, use it as a springboard for further creation in the Cauldron.

List-Titles

• Walking directions to a place free from fear

• I want to tell you…

• Encyclopedia of My Human Needs, Abridged

• A spell for collective care

• Anatomy of loving touch

• A protection spell for those I love

• Notes from the chrysalis

Other notes, for those seeking further clarity: you can think of this as a free-writing prompt, or a poem, or literally a list of items / thoughts / concepts. Be driven by what the list title evokes for you. Change the title if it's not quite right. Break any of the rules that don't suit you.

Examples of beautiful lists, created in some Flux devising, here.