There was a woman who lived in the woods. Every day after breakfast she went for a walk, carrying a tin of paint. She made a hole in the bottom with a nail and let the paint drip out where she walked. When the paint ran out she would stop, eat her lunch, and then follow the trail back home.<\/p>\n
Every day with her paint she traced a new path. And every day her paint ran out before she found a way out of the woods. She wondered somedays whether she just needed a bigger tin, needed to take a longer route.<\/p>\n
And other days she wondered if there was any way out at all. That even if she kept walking forever the woods would never end, she would never be free.<\/p>\n
__________<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written in August 2014<\/em> There was a woman who lived in the woods. Every day after breakfast she went for a walk, carrying a tin of paint. She made a hole in the bottom with a nail and let the paint drip out where she walked. When the paint ran out she would stop, eat her lunch, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[531,20,436,21,22,29,530,532,463,529],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-a-maze","tag-a-thousand-and-one-tales","tag-dan-rawlings","tag-fairy-tales","tag-folk-tales","tag-holly-english","tag-mazes","tag-stroud","tag-the-woman-in-the-woods","tag-the-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. And re-written in Jaunary 2016<\/em>
\n3. For use in a maze<\/em>
\n4. Which was called “A Maze”<\/em>
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