For 2026, I'm pulling a tarot card to guide each of my blog posts. The card I pulled today was the King of Pentacles, which indicates mastery over the earthly, material sphere.
Here are some recent examples of where I do have the material wisdom and competence of the King of Pentacles.

I listen to a lot of podcasts.

My father has coined an acronym for me: ILTP ("I listened to a podcast").

In homage to Ross Gay's beloved collection of essays The Book of Delights, I'm highlighting some of the podcasts that are delights to me.

Today was a real basic bitch day, and I have zero regrets.

Meow Wolf: I slid and climbed and played gesture games with costumed performers moving through the space. Jennifer and I made a lot of nerdy art museum jokes about which elements were like knock-off Yayoi Kusama’s or Nam June Paik’s and James Turrell’s. It was a good time of an afternoon.

I am hitting the road in Stella, my trusty Subaru Outback, and seizing the chance to do one of those things I’ve always dreamed of doing: a cross-country road trip.

I find travel so rewarding in large part because it always leads me to new discoveries about myself and the world. And I’m curious to see what I’ll learn on this trip.

[Taylor Mac’s] collective engagement transforms the experience, creating a magical place of possibility where harsh truths and awkwardness mingle with triumph.