January's tiny stories in words: Sixwoodling

The words for Month One: a small bite-sized, focused daily action to write the story of the day in just words

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Hello, again!

Sunday’s letter gave you the background to this new daily six word story project where I write the story of the day in just six words and included pics of the mini maps with the stories.

This post is a companion to the original and is simply the stories themselves, for easier reading. I’ve sent this letter out as both an email and vis the Substack app, as it’s the first time I’m doing this. In future, as I don’t want to inundate your inbox with more email than necessary, it will only be available from a link in the monthly letter and on my main Substack page.

The stories are separated into weeks, which is how I’ve written them on the mini maps (I’ve included a map below as an example - you can see all of them in the original post). Also, as I was in South Africa for two weeks this month, the stories are sprinkled with colloquial South African lingo as well as some Afrikaans! I’ve put these in bold font.

Here we go, this is how the daily 6 word stories have captured the small moments of my life for the first 5 weeks of 2024. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them. If you feel the need to leave a comment using just six words, I’d love that!

January

• Mon 1st Jan
  "I'm going for a swim today”

• Tue 2nd Jan
  Gentle 2024 vision in 50 words

• Wed 3rd Jan
  Ad hoc paid driving for friends

• Thur 4th Jan
  Soul food ~ Encouragement session with Barrie

• Fri 5th Jan
  Brekkie out - meh.
  Work - head down!

• Sat 6th Jan
  Female friends.
  Uplifting, nurturing conversation.
  Connection.

• Sun 7th Jan
  Roast beef and Yahtzee with S&C

• Mon 8th Jan
  The freedom of having shorter hair

• Tue 9th Jan
  Artists Way Book Group kick off

• Wed 10th Jan
  Loadshedding accroutrements; notebook prepped; SA sorted!

• Thur 11th Jan
  New Moon intentions set. First time! 🌑

• Fri 12th Jan
  Boot filled, sandy water
  Not solid?

• Sat 13th Jan
  10am "sea café"
  8mins in water ❄️🥶

• Sun 14th Jan
  IOW → Ferry → Train → Plane → Joburg. Phew!

  

  Sixwoodling: Week Two 2024

• Mon 15th Jan
  OR Tambo - eish!
  Triangle pool - swim!

• Tue 16th Jan
  FNB finally sorted.
  First Uber ever

• Wed 17th Jan
  New people - New town - New course

• Thur 18th Jan
  Sweet, cinnamon pumpkin pie. Egte Boerekos.

• Fri 19th Jan
  Thankfully. Alone at last. Blessed silence 

• Sat 20th Jan 
  Following the sun and garden perambulations

• Sun 21st Jan
  Amazing Grace hymn. Heard on breeze

• Mon 22nd Jan
  Rice, babotie, chicken grey veg

• Tue 23rd Jan
  Paper basketball, volleyball, laughter, joking, fun

• Wed 24th Jan
  88 question, 32 emergency zone game cards

• Thur 25th Jan
  Full “wolf moon”, wet grass underfoot

• Fri 26th Jan
  Emotional course end. Long drive back

• Sat 27th Jan
  Deep sleep. Chill time. Yummy braai.

• Sun 28th Jan
  9am breakfast meeting with TIMCA funders 

• Mon 29th Jan
  Space in Economy Delight - worth it!

• Tue 30th Jan
  Who's awake at 2.30am eating breakfast?

• Wed 31st Jan
  Final leg home - train and ferry

February 

• Thur 1st Feb
  Reset. Recharge. Refresh.
  Extended alone time.

• Fri 2nd Feb
  The joy of reading a book

• Sat 3rd Feb
  Clearing my space: dusting, decluttering, reorganising

• Sun 4th Feb
  System for capturing ideas and tasks

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Other Mappery things to explore

• Inspired by Hemingway's famous six-word tale, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” the "six word story" has served as a prompt for both writers and photographers for many years. For examples visit Six Word Stories

• If you’d like to know more about mapping your own life, do get in touch¹ and we can talk.

• You can also visit my new Mappery Moodles website to find out more about what I do with maps!

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1. You can email me on debs.stott@mapperymoodles.me