Write On, Man

In which we feel all the feelings while we search for a groove

Jan 21, 2026

Hello, Friend,

If you’re looking for a way to channel your stress, might I suggest using wire, beads, pliers, a hammer, and a bench block? This is the Write On Necklace that I shared here a while back. I created it for WireJewelry dot com and Margot Potter Studios. You can grab the newly published step by step photo tutorial and make your own on the WireJewelry.com website or, if you’re just not that into playing with wire and beads, you can purchase the finished necklace and/or the ‘love’ variation for yourself and/or a friend.

Joy is the word,

is the word that you heard.

It’s got groove, it’s got feeling.

Sorry, Grease, but you’re not going to cut it this year. You may also have groove and feeling, but we’re all feeling so many feelings we need to find a new groove just to measure them.

Something loud, driving, intense with heavy percussion and a lot of screaming.

Maybe not so much a groove as a chorus of banshees accompanied by Animal from the Muppets on drums, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, and a trio of deranged bag pipers.

That about sums it up.

Oh lort, grease up the axles and harness the horses, we’re heading to town!

Ma’s gone all hinky again.

Or maybe it’s just Ma’s janky hand tapping random nonsense into the keyboard.

Either way, it seems we’ve gone off road here today.

Do forgive.

While we feel all the feelings and discover some we never knew existed, why not make a necklace, buy a necklace, or find a groove or a feeling that provides some momentary relief?

One year and a day into this red capped dystopian hellscape and the world is (still) a giant dumpster fire.

We must find (or make) our joy wherever we can.

That’s a groove we can all dig.