Why this inspired us
Before the closing wish for shared hearts and minds comes a simple instruction: come together, speak together. Connection starts with showing up and talking.
Explore a verse
Rig Veda 10.191.2
The reference printed on your card, and the idea behind it.
In its original context
This verse comes from the very last hymn of the Rig Veda, a short hymn of four verses about people living in concord. (Its final verse, 10.191.4, is the source of our Woven Together card.)
After a first verse addressed to fire, this one speaks directly to the people gathered: come together, speak together, let your minds come to know together, just as the gods of old came together and each took their share. The picture is of an assembly, a meeting where everyone has a seat and a voice.
The word for coming together, speaking together and knowing together is the same small prefix, repeated three times, a bit like saying "with, with, with". The verse doesn't demand that people agree before they meet; it asks them to meet, talk and understand, and trusts that a shared mind comes from that.
Something to think about
Is talking together enough to stay together?
Our cards carry original, contemporary words inspired by ancient passages. They are not translations.
The Letterbox
Little letters, occasionally.
New cards, first looks and the odd kind word. Never more than we'd want to receive ourselves.