Today’s date is full of sixes. Not only is it the date 6/6, but the year is 2013 (2 + 1 + 3 = 6).

Six is a special number here at the Six-Word Memoir project. In numerology, the number 6 learns from others, cares for them, and teaches them. The number 6 builds communities by keeping people together. Six hold together members of the SMITH community, who challenge each other to six-offs, sixcessfully pun with 6, and condense their stories into only six words. But 6 isn’t just a number; it’s become a verb too. Below, sixers share their meta thoughts on sixing:

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— DynamicDbytheC

Writes in 6. Thinks in volumes.

— ctgoods2

Feels good thinking in “6”s again.

— ihatemakingtheseup

Sometimes, my six sense really tingles.

— canadafreeze

Thoughts in mixer. Need sixer elixir.

— midnightmaniac45

Having affair with six-words; can’t stop.

— JAD

Only 6 words for 17 years.

— BrooklynBridge

SMITH readers digest in 6-word bites.

— TheProsperousArtist

Another 6-wordless morning. Where are they?

— NoNickname1

Limericks, then haikus, now six-words. Obsessed.

— KatsK

Word army marches, sings in sixes.

— Amapola

Laptop’s dead. Now 6-ing via iPhone.

— treehugger

I challenge YOU to a 6-off.

— PrincessLief

Sixually active sixers advocate safe six(ing).

— canadafreeze

Teaching ourselves to be highly Sixcessful.

— illuminatrix

Synapses snap when synergistic Sixes surface.

— catsmeow

Bad comes in 3’s, try 6’s.

— RichardFrancis

Regularly slicing my life into sixes.

— LittleMiss

No blog, just trail of Sixes.

— catsmeow

Square root of 36, daily fix.

— Loon

Six a day keeps breakdown away.

— JohnBigJohn