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sunday, eighteen july: the hermit

The Hermit, again! As befits my total inability to engage with other human beings. The struggle right now is Declan's birthday, all of his friends are out of...

saturday, seventeen july: justice

For contrast, a typical-of-my-mother conversation. It’s Friday morning, she’s just made us some breakfast–I offer to cook, every time, but she turns me down...

friday, sixteen july: cards absent.

“Now my father’s brother,” my dad says, “he was nothing like that. He took after his mother all the way. He was nothing like his father. Nothing. That was...

thursday, fifteen july: daughter of cups

On the card, the daughter of cups is a duckling casting a rainbow shadow. The guidebook says she represents a creative and emotional person, distressed by...

wednesday, fourteen july: the world

Yesterday’s expedition was the New York Botanical Garden. It was my first time at the NYBG, but as Declan reminded me several times, it wasn’t his first...

tuesday, thirteen july: the hermit

Summers with Declan, I try to have a Thing for us to do every day. I mean, sometimes he's in camp, but usually only when we need camp as childcare. Sometimes...

monday, twelve july: son of pentacles

So the tarot thing. I used to do a lot more tarot, like, twenty years ago. (I am so old. This is a theme lately, I am so old, I am not used to that....

sunday, eleven july: starting over.

Morning routines just kind of crop up--I stopped drinking coffee, mostly, sometime during the pandemic year. Not because I don't like coffee, I don't know....