LITANY

hey all,

i'm really sorry i haven't emailed or posted on serendip about this sooner... busy(ness)... 

i'm really excited about an idea i had to merge the litany with an idea i had using yarn... it's late, i may not be coherent in explaining this, so please bare with me! 

each of us in this "performance" group will come up with our own line about what we are:

- over it about

OR

- moved to act as a result of some theory we learned in the class

OR

- your idea here

whichever theme we decide on, we'll make sure to explain to the class which category we want them to stick with and to create their own line to add to the litany. the goal is for everyone to come up with  one in 5-10 (?) minutes. but, first, we read ours so that they have some idea of how this'll go.

after 5-10 minutes, we'll ask everyone to put their line into a hat/box/bundle and we'll mix them up and pass them out. no one can look at their line... even if they have their own, it's okay. 

next, we have everyone sit in a circle. we have a spool of yarn that we have one of us toss to someone in the circle (this is assuming we each have a second line we'd like to contribute to this new group). that person will finally open their folded piece of paper and read the line aloud. the person who wrote that will make themselves known and the person who read their line aloud will toss the yarn to them. throwing the yarn process is rather difficult, especially when one does not pull enough excess thread to toss, so there are a few moments of silence in between, in appropriate quaker style. we repeat this process until everyone has uttered their line and the member of our group who initially tossed the yarn will say a short bit about how all of our perspectives are now known to the group and we can begin to build right relationships with one another if we'd like to (using the example of being moved to act as a result of a theory from class) reach out to an idea that resonated with us. inevitably, we'll have overlapping and complementary ideas... further showing how we are entangled... both through our words and the yarn.

we then cut the yarn and make friendship bracelets out of them... or in this case, alliance bracelets, or some other clever name someone can think of! 

what do y'all think? any additional ideas/improvements are greatly appreciated.

pleasant dreams,

☮ someshine