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thoughts.
We have community.
We have the privilege to be here.
We have got both closeness and distance.
We’ve got the rest of our lives.
We have choice.
We’ve got passports.
We have places to belong to.
We have appreciation,
Acknowledgement,
Gratitude.
We’ve got support from those who aren’t here now but made it possible
for us to be here – We have a whole web behind each of us.
We have an urge to express ourselves,
And an urge to make space for others to express themselves.
A lot of heritage, to understand our place in the 21st century.
We have problems we can’t solve.
We’ve got a much bigger picture that we are part of.
We have the possibility to pause…
We have a desire to connect with natural spaces.
We have doubts.
We’ve got a desire to care.
We have got the echo of the lake.
We’ve got opportunities to care.
We’ve got ourselves.
We have technology that’s here and recording us right now.
We’ve got education.
We’ve got health, and healthcare.
We’ve got the opportunity to make a stand.
We’ve got a need to be loved.
We’ve got the right to speak.
We’ve got loads of new information.
We’ve got reflection time.
We’ve got senses of humour.
We’ve got the ground beneath our feet.
We’ve got roots.
We’ve got silence.
We have the capacity to do very, very beautiful things and sounds, and
trust and interest in doing very dark and scary things and sounds.
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We’ve got fear.
We’ve got a chorus of birds accompanying us right now.
We have risks to take.
We’ve got a blanket. 2
We’ve got time travel.
We’ve got freedom.
We’ve got feminism.
We’ve got possessions.
We’ve got baggage!
We’ve got welly boots.
We’ve got jokes and humour.
We have got personal struggles.
We have each other.
We have sharing.
We’ve got the bookmaker. 3
We’ve got… a desire to take a short break?
(Yes. We do.)
We’ve got gentle applause.
2 The community of the Weaving Voices partner members collectively created a botanically dyed blanket, with
the guidance of Nina van Hartskamp, as part of the project workshop in Amsterdam, April 2023. During the
workshop in Unnaryd (Sweden), June 2023, each participant took this blanket for a night to sleep in it and note
down a dream from that night.
3 The Weaving Voices family adopted Michał Jurys, the graphic designer of this book after he led a bookmaking workshop for us during the Amsterdam training (April 2023). His work in helping us to shape and 昀椀nd
creative forms for our words in both this online publication and our respective dissemination events has been
invaluable.
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