As I’m working on reconfiguring my business to be what I want, I’m trying to bring some lightness, ease, and fun to how I work. This is a week of intuitive play.

Ace of Cups
the kernel/seed of the suit of cups (suit of water, emotions)
a fresh start with emotional receptivity and openheartedness

This is the new sign that crowns my bulletin board. It’s pronounced poh’-lay poh’-lay, and it’s the Kiswahili word for “slowly”. It’s come home with me from the fabulously immersive two-week trip to Tanzania I just took with my Mom.

Love to these ladies

They helped me through COVID times

That drew us all close

My museum visits on this trip have been reminders that I do still love these places, and that they make me think. Think critically and disappointedly and aspirationally and fondly and many more adverbs besides. But I’m not done with them, in either a personal or a professional sense.

I finally made it to the Museum of Jurassic Technology. I won’t say anything to spoil it, but I will say that it’s by turns charming and weird and lovely and eerie and macabre and funny and thought-provoking. It makes you question what museums are for and histories of display and how you “know” something is authentic and what even is the concept of authenticity, anyway.

I love a ghost town. I love places that are still extant but clearly decayed from their glory days. I love the sense of mystery and layered stories these places exude. I love the aura that floats thick in the air of unknown people whose lives were lived there and unknown occasions the places have seen.

A 5-senses list today (on these next few days that I’m spending with friends, I’m likely going to do shorter posts, since Friend Time needs maximizing).

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.