Weaving a Life

"War is like the threads in a piece of lace. Who can say it's the threads or the voids between them that make the patterns."  Roger Hicks

"For a long time when I seemed to live by a slender thread of faith, spun out from within me   From this single thread I spun strands that joined me to the good things of the world.  And then I spun more threads that joined all the strands together, making a life.  When it was complete, or nearly so, it was shapely and beautiful in the light of day.  It endured through the nights, but sometimes it only barely did.  It would be tattered and set awry by things that fell or blew or fled or flew.  Many of the strands would be broken.  Those I would have to spin and weave again in the morning."  Wendell Berry

Creative Write:   Do you see yourself sending out threads like a spider spinning its web?  What metaphor would you apply to your life?

How do you deal with mistakes and starting over?  If you wrote about the "voids between the threads" of your life,  how would you describe them?