Crafty Creating Creatures
Making & mothering mosaic
Spiders craft fine webs,
bees build beehives, birds weave nests.
What can humans make?
Making Homes
Lesser Goldfinch nest
with wee egg, on rustic wreath.
Bill-crafted, cozy.
Diligent spider,
tenacious crafty knitter.
Artistic wise persistence.
How we learn from you,
stealth, mute web-spinning maker!
Beautiful, useful.
Making Things
Let’s use up, wear out,
make it do, or do without.
Make things serve somehow.
How to make at least as much as we take?
What does it take to make beautiful, useful things happen?
How many messes does it take to make a masterpiece?
Making Messes
We all make messes,
we drop crumbs as we move on.
Even birds, blossoms.
We all soil something,
we drip sweat and tears and blood.
Even cute babies.
We all break plates, hearts,
living leaves a littered trail.
Even saints, sages.
Making Repairs
Atone, lament, mend,
repent, regret we’ve harmed, hurt.
Try ever again.
To repair despair,
as kintsugi joins with gold.
We can, joined, we hope.
It’ll take gathered faith
to patch huge holes, remake whole.
Battered Old Glory.
May we learn, reclaim,
weave, wield power, strength regained.
Stitch a world-wide tent.
Making Goodness
Making food, fuel, friends,
oh, so many modes of “make”!
Make practice service?
To toil in the soil,
to serve by raking, baking.
To delve in the soul.
Countless jobs open,
jump onboard, all-hands-on-deck.
Experience helpful.
Humans make sweet love,
art, music, science, hi-tech.
Will we dare make peace?
Making Progress
May we flow freely,
finding, making our way home.
Like mother rivers.
This, still in our hands,
history in the making.
Options are real, here.
Making Choices
Of the numerous choices we make daily, which are more important and impactful?
Are any of our choices insignificant?
Since we make decisions relying on our (often blurry) current vision, how to discern and deliberate to decide based on our noblest values, virtues?
Making Babies
To make, raise babies,
quite a consequential choice.
Not up to rulers.
New glad mother grinned
when visiting the cradle,
feeling most grateful.
Now she knows they’re grown,
but they’ll always be her kids.
It's not easy, no.
Mothers, fathers, kin,
fertile humus for strong sprouts.
Makers of people.
Caregivers, teachers,
godparents, healers, leaders.
Makers of nows, nexts.
Making Families
He gets up early
to make breakfast for the kids.
His friends don’t know this.
The kids make a mess,
she swears she’ll never hit them.
She’d learned the hard way.
It’s forest bath time.
Mom, dad, a child and a half,
making memories.
Making Miracles
May we make amends,
make ourselves accountable.
Make reparations.
May we make fair rules,
follow just laws, fix the rest.
Heed Lady Justice.
May we make poems,
paintings, prose, prayers that sweat.
Make bold good trouble.
Making Medley
My, so much in the making... What can we make?
Well, we could...
make a move, a movie, a mural, a mosaic
make a fist, a fuss, a face, a fool of ourselves, or
make a call, make a ball, make a name for ourselves
make waves, make trouble, make news, make a splash,
make a scene, make an entrance, make an exit worth a flash
make a deal, make a meal, make a wish, a yummy dish
make beds and lay on them, or plant seeds and sprouts in them
make friends, make enemies, make frenemies (if we must)
make time, make space, make noise, make hush
make choices, make changes, make commitments, make/keep promises
make money, make music, make magic or miracles
make matters worse, or makes matters better
make the best of it (whatever it is)
make someone smile, make someone sigh, make someone’s day,
make it, make it fit, make it work, make it go, or make it go away
make a living, make a life
make light of it all, or simply make light.
Making Makers
From the menagerie of magnificent marvel makers in many media found in Substack, posts from these three brought inspiration to this post:
Dandelion Seeds Illustrated Essays The Hush and the Howl While I was Drawing
Making Marks
Nest News, a brief big lesson on making, from two bitty birds
Two, ode to two human makers
Collages, prompts for making a craft project
Not every seed germinates.
Not every plant blooms.
Not every tree bears fruit.
Not every female gives birth.
There are many ways to mother, and to make.
From our family to yours, Mother’s Day blessings to everyone who celebrates those who’ve mothered, one way or another.
Her name, Maribel,
her dear sons, the luckiest.
Beloved sister.
What say you, makers, mothers, sisters, brothers?
(“Hearting,” restacking and sharing posts help them reach others)
By human earthlings’
heads hearts hands intelligence.
No AI used here.
Marisol, your post today beautifully honours the many ways we create, nurture and shape the world - especially the deep, often unseen work of mothering, as you so rightly say, in all its forms. May we continue to make, mend and cherish the connections that give life meaning, offering love and care the way a mother does. Thank you so much for also sharing your beautiful family with us. 🌹❤️🌹
Such beautiful writing. Thank you for sharing this. 💚