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.

Why am I currently identifying with the gooey caterpillar soup?

Because work isn't quite working for me the way I need it to.

So I'm leaning into abundance instead and paying people I trust for help.

In this Chaos Moment, we need human connection with people who can share ideas and emotions with us.

That's the caregiving work I'm leaning into and putting out in the world. I hope being a guide and an experimenter like this, publicly, is part of what makes that care work (and CARE work) resonate with others. And I hope, if it feels right for you, that you'll join me in CARE.

I thought I’d see this year out in a fallow, hibernatory period of time is to write an Obituary for My Rippling Year.

Here’s my attempt to memorialize what this year has been for me in a way that’s satisfactorily summarizing without circling in endless analysis.

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.

I've come to the center of my Rippling Year. An interesting place to be for a year in which I'm reminding myself to be guided by the question What is my center and what am I spreading?

To make real magic, you’ve got to identify the conditions that make you productively uncomfortable, and make the decision to put yourself in those conditions. It’s taken me a long time to hone my ability to identify and embrace those conditions for myself, but now that I’m working for myself, I’ve found it’s easier to lean into them.

My first public offer in collaboration with Rebecca Shulman and David Bowles is here!

It’s SEED:Baltimore. It’s a 1-day, in-person workshop in Baltimore on May 16, 2024 (the day before the American Alliance of Museums annual conference sessions begin), followed by 6 virtual 90-minute sessions over the following months, all accompanied by a resource library.