Just finished stitching The Princess Bride by @weelittlestitches while listening to the Pop Culture Happy Hour episode for the Princess Bride’s 30th anniversary.

#2017bestnine

Honestly, The Harry Potter Alliance’s list of values basically sums up my values.

Yesterday’s #dailytarot pull: the two of wands, Tarot of Pagan Cats. I pulled this yesterday & re-read the description from #wtfistarot & @bakaraw: "Let’s Do the Damn Thing." (p. 79) "Okay, but what IS the thing?" I thought. To me, this cat looks like she’s ready to do the thing but is looking out across the water, waiting for the cat who will partner with her to arrive. I didn’t know what the thing was. Later, I got a tweet from a Master’s student about how the Coalition of Youth Librarians wanted to partner with me on starting a local chapter of The Harry Potter Alliance (@thehpalliance). At first, I said, "It’s too much for me right now." I had an email from HPA in my inbox responding to my filling out the chapter form, but I’d snoozed it until January. Then, as I was listening to the @dreamfreedombeauty intro episode & they were talking about what manifestation feels like and following a feeling, I thought about how I had literal physical chills during the HPA presentation at #AASL17. I thought about the tweet. I thought about how sure, running a chapter is too much for me alone, but maybe not too much in partnership with others who want to do it anyway (rather than friends I might have invited who weren’t as committed). I thought about how the two of wands "encourages fearlessness in our decisions." I thought, "You know what? Let’s do the damn thing." So COYL will discuss it at their next meeting, then I’ll meet with those of them who want to do it, and then we’ll really get started in January.

Brainstorming @thehpalliance ideas thanks to an assist from the UNC SILS Coalition of Youth Librarians… (including @everyday__magic somehow? IDK)

Tea, snacks, tablet, mermaid blanket. Time to engage the literature.

#dailytarot single card pull: The Knight of Chalices (Son of Cups),Tarot of Pagan Cats. It seems right that for my first pull, I pulled the card that when reading #wtfistarot I thought, "Yes, that is me." @bakaraw calls this the Art Bro. It’s a uniting of masculine & feminine energy (very me) in someone who is creative, but has found ways to use that creativity within a structure and turned it to profit. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of creativity in academic writing and just finished writing my most personal and creative piece of academic writing to date last night. When I look at this cat, I see somebody who isn’t completely out of touch with the waters of emotions, but who has harnessed tools that help keep her dry. Her steed carries her deliberately, and is a steed that does thrive in the water. She is in touch with emotions and intuition, but not drenched or drowning. The message I take from pulling this card today is that I should be me 100%.

“In the Fool, we say yes to the universe; in the Magician, the universe says yes back to us.” Thinking w gratitude on the times I was the Fool & of the people who were the Magician. #wtfistarot

Self-care: reading #wtfistarot at the chiropractor during my therapy. I have been looking for something that is the opposite of grad school, and this is it. Intuition, not empirical. Exactly what I need to balance my work.

Leonie’s parenting advice. So needed! #myshiningyear