young and pliable

the challenge of my day today was figuring out a way to weave pliable stems with very little backbone into stiff willow stems and new-growth cattail leaves. i both want to invite such insignificant challenges into my life, and be open to how privileged i am to be in such a position. i hope that more people who look like me may be troubled by such thoughts, who may previously have been untroubled.

weaving of june branches