some good things make a post

[kaberett]

1. I acquired, a little while ago now, a copy of The Spacious Tarot from Little Red Tarot, a wee shop in Wales that is, soothingly, very earnest about stocking indie decks that showcase a variety of diversities. I've been drawing a card a day to provide prompts for reflection and meditation, and very much enjoying the process and the ritual of the thing.
   
2. I have done some tidying of the house, including taking some things as needed it out to the garage for storage of the "well we don't want it right now but we'll probably want it eventually" variety.
   
3. Reading-for-pleasure at the moment is very much taking the form of the Familiar and the Predictable and the Pleasant, which means that I'm now working my way through Murderbot again, so that I'll remember roughly what's happened and who all everybody is when the next one comes out toward the end of the month.
   
4. Movement. I am really getting a lot out of the doing-Pilates-once-a-week thing. Rather to my own surprise I do have more body awareness and I am recruiting more core muscles more of the time and I can feel myself getting stronger, with the overall result that I get little frissons of exercise-related-endorphin whenever I e.g. lift up a full water jug and then lean over with it.
   
5. The first chunk of chapter 6... exists, now? I think there are going to be three (context/background, findings, and future directions). It's a little under a page long (where I'm aiming for ~3 pages in total). On the one hand I feel rather as though I am repeating a lot of the introduction (and I will go back and check that), but on the other I am empirically reaffirming that staring at three paragraphs full of [fill-this-in-later] and words that Refuse To Go, followed by fleshing them out, followed by deleting most of them again, is in fact progress. Iterative writing still, it transpires, requires iteration, and also my process still works. Relief-gratitude-relaxation.
   

Comments

[contrarywise]

The Spacious Tarot is a lovely deck. I was happy to have found it toward the end of its Kickstarter, so I have a first edition deck (with the 3 of Pentacles typo). As much as I like decks with diverse human representation, I have a soft spot for decks with no or nearly no humans in their imagery.

I also love Little Red Tarot. I've been following Beth's work since late 2014, when Beth was living on a boat moored in Manchester. It's a wonderful resource for queer, feminist Tarot, and the community blag and archive is great!

[vass]

Rather to my own surprise I do have more body awareness and I am recruiting more core muscles more of the time and I can feel myself getting stronger

I've noticed similar effects from my own weekly exercise regimen. It's very good.

Iterative writing still, it transpires, requires iteration, and also my process still works.

Thank you for this reminder.

[firecat]

What a beautiful Tarot deck!

There are so many good ones, if I didn't limit myself to admiring them online they would be spilling out of every room in my house.

[silveradept]

That looks like a lovely tarot deck, and good for mediations on a regular basis.

Hooray for iterative processes still iterating and producing.