Prompt:

MAP MAKING

“Visualize a personal map of a place that is dear to you and then write out directions for navigating it.”
— The Orchard

PROMPT:

SANCTITY OF COMMUNITY

Who is your community? How does community connect you to what you consider sacred, or facilitate a sacred experience?

What’s that magic feel like, floating around the room, as we share it with others?

How do you imbibe in the elixir of community?

Community can serve as an existential balm, affirming our identities and purpose. In community’s truest form we feel full, connected through shared goals, shared joy, and shared presence.

Theater, movies, music festivals, community gardens, basketball courts, farmers markets, church services, marathons, protests—

What comes to mind when you think of community?

How has the movement of access to community being more or mostly online changed your understanding of it in the time of Covid-19? What do you miss most about physical community?

We feel joy and love through helping others, or just co-existing. Community can be built with a small coterie, or wiggle and squirm as a complex organism of moving and growing parts. All are powered by reciprocation and generosity.

How does your inner world meet the outer world? In what ways do you reach out and create beauty with others?

Simply put, how does community shape your understanding of the world around you, and of your self?

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READING PROMPTS

  • Read an article on “The Enchantment of Ceremony” by Linda Hogan in yes! here!

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We love the podcast 99% Invisible. Check out these community-centric episodes:

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Social Infrastructure is the glue that binds communities together, and it is just as real as the infrastructure for water, power, or communications, although it's often harder to see. But Eric Klinenberg says that when we invest in social infrastructures such as libraries, parks, or schools, we reap all kinds of benefits.

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. When current President Donald Trump took office, he promised to build an "an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall." The first part of this episode by Radio Diaries tells two stories of what happens when, instead of people crossing the border, the border crosses the people.

Please submit your work as a PDF to ensure we read it, and potentially publish it, in the way you envisioned.

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Endlessly follow all thoughts mercurial,

The Orchard