Finding Woven Again

I started Woven with a practical idea in mind. A place to map communities, gather resources, and make life a little easier for women living abroad. Good intentions, but it was missing something.

Somewhere between the community directories and the Q&A lists, I lost the thread.

Then we moved from Guangzhou to Beijing, and Woven quietly went on pause. Three months of boxes, new streets, new rhythms. It was a lot to take in, and somewhere in the middle of it all, I found myself asking what actually matters here.

What I kept coming back to was the stories. Akiko, who turned her inability to comfort a friend in crisis into a community of 900 people. Janette, who spent years trying to fit in, until she finally stopped and found herself. Both stories were about women who moved abroad and somewhere along the way, found themselves.

That's what Woven is really for.

So I'm taking spring to tend to this slowly and intentionally. And in summer, Woven begins again with that as its heart.

If you've been here from the beginning, thank you for staying. If you're new, I'm glad you found your way here.

The most important journey you take is the one inward. That's what we're here for.

Weiwei