Love Tangles

Straight cut boards can be arranged into lots of shapes; including boxes and crates; tables and houses

They need to be joined somehow; mortise and tenon , half lap, nailed or screwed or biscuited.

Something else happens when you take a root or a twig or some such piece of a tree  or a weed;

You decided not to butcher it today; no slab, no amputations, thank you anyway;

No, today it will be by natural laws that they join; through the process that is almost mystical;

Perhaps the magic of a different dimension working here; like gravity or childhood  or dance;

Like meandering or making love ; like tree climbing or berry picking; like riding a horse or skiing.

Somehow, someway the pieces  fit  together into  what I have decided to call “love tangles”;

The law of natural forms that lend themselves to embrace and mingle their shapes in ways that are, at once effortless in some ways, uncanny in others, magical commingling of their pieces into what shape they can do the best; like spooning  or hugging, like wrestling or weaving, like a good conversation; where everyone gets to add to the conversation while listening; add a bit of spice to the talk.

I only know about this because I have been mussing around with sticks a lot over the years……

I have learned to trust the nature of the multiverse in these matters;  so when I walk up to a pile of sticks, I am excited about what will follow and not afraid of the result; I know it will look pretty good and will be pretty strong and will join the company of the winged  beaked home builders, the pond slappers and the damned cute little pack rats.

So, grab some twisted roots and wild branches, some winding oddballs of slow motion adapting to the community of branches as they all seek the sun, the roots as they all seek the water, the limbs as they defy gravity and flex their muscles all the live long day…….grab them up and put one on the other, put him on her and her around him and bring the whole family to the party; add a twig here and there and flex that willow to see what it can do in class.

Bring some nails and screws…….of course

They will surprise you once again as they join so easily and happily or effortlessly, more or less……….into Love Tangles.