Twelve tantalizing articles to spark your imagination this weekend.

• Start tangling in your journal.
• You deserve a treat. Check out these animated shorts. Especially the first one.
• For the math nerds.
• A quilt story.
• For the novelists: your first (or second, or third) draft is done, but it’s not what you know it could be. Try these writing exercises to improve your story.
• Black-owned bookstores in 33 states.
• This looks like fun: a virtual poetry reading via Zoom.
• Interesting pictures.
• Small-scale nature embroideries embellished with beads.
• The secret life of trees.
• I had to look up “confabulation.” Apparently, it’s a big problem in our society.
• When conditions are perfect, this waterfall is on fire.