Valentine's card
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Making a valentine's Day card to your loved ones to express how much you love him or her, writing down the words from your deep heart and give him or her a big surprise.
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Within a Breath
Image by Jon Person
Glints of color leap out from this world of grey. Pink, green and orange call out from a pile of splinters, and I kneel down and remove my gloves for a closer look. Warped by rain, a white card inset with an irony of blue sky and clouds reads: "For My Beloved Sister." Next to it, another card: a pink flower surrounded by a sea green border. It reads: "Thanks So Much." I gently place the cards in the owners' shed, and put my gloves back on. These cards may have been blown here from several blocks away, but they are still precious to someone.
Precious. That word again. This place makes me realize the value of little things. Disasters violently teach people how precious the little things are by stealing them away. Stealing the roof from their homes smelling of apple pie, stealing the broken-in recliners and sofas from the living room and spitting them into a lake. Stealing the only black-and-white picture of great grandparents, pictures of beloved family and children. Shredding them. I start to think about things I completely take for granted. My car. My mind. My heart.
I become more aware of the moment, and the numbness gives way to color and a sweet smell on the wind, the breeze coursing through the hair on my arm. I notice my shallow, anxious breath and grinding teeth. Is... is it always like that? I draw in a full breath; untouched air, miles from any pollution. Air thickened slightly by tropical moisture carried up from the Gulf from so far away. The moisture may very well have been lifted up from a tropical tree months ago. Lifted up and mixed with oxygen from so many trees; a soup of life-giving air filling my lungs. So many trees are responsible for giving me this breath. Time slows as I realize my... relationship with the world in a tangible way; life-giving air, absorbed into me, from so many places, from so far away.
I came here to change Greensburg, but it was changing me.
textual apophenia ~ (channel 4, deal 2, DESTINY trick X)
Image by KevinHutchins314
Entheogens such as cannabis seem to encourage and enhance certain modes of perception synaesthetically, and as trippy music plays we might find the various curves and rays in the geometry of the dancers on the tableau forming new patterns in our vision. Sometimes in the profuse arrays of faces and dazzling jumbles of shapes and colors one might experience apophenia and begin imagining glimpses of other fairies' faces and presences in the edges of imagination. There is no such thing as Hierophany in reality, but it's fun to feel synergies of sensation and fantasy.
This apophenia often extends beyond the colorful imagery on the cards and frequently manifests in the textual. In various places on the tableau there are words and letters which come into view as we descry portions of the titles of the cards, phrases on the erotica, and small bits of writing on the bric-a-brac. During some circumstances, particularly when influenced by delightful hallucinogens, the mind's eye might begin to make up certain combinations of letters and syllables and phrases. Much like an anagram or a game of Boggle, it's fun to see how many new words and useful combinations of letters can be discerned. For example, a fragment of text says "indiviDUALly twiSTED", but the only visible letters at the moment are "DUAL" and "STED". What do we find when we glance at
D U A L _ S T E D ?
How about:
dusted, lasted, deals, steal, dudes, tased, lusted, stud.
And if we provide a few imaginary affixes to various root combinations of the Boggle letters, we might find:
resiDUAL DUTiES STAyED UntIL DESTiny poSTED
We can do this all day. Tolkien said, "Not all those who wander are lost."
- - -
The Initiate Contractor took some risks and now he's being rewarded beautifully. The Medium (neither first nor last) was worried about the defense being ruined by a CoUPLe oF fuCkUPS, but now he understands there wasn't much else he could do about the outcome of this contract, he tried his best. The Dealer creatively attempted various defensive approaches, but also learned the same lessons as his temporary teammate. The bidder's magick is proven to be unstoppable.
Strategy:
All options have been exhausted. The Game~Golem automatically clicks the final pieces into position as the cycles of the music-box/ cuckoo-clock/ terpsichore-mechanism are resolved. No moves could alter the scores any further when the Contractor played his 8 Swords during the previous trick (W), so the three cards of that tierce plus the three cards of this tierce (X) will constitute a sort of "fortune-cookie" consisting of six Cosmic Tribe dancers whose dispositions were determined purely by the fortunes of the game. This provides us with a silly "poem of DESTINY", one of the three loci of the game; the other two loci were the PROGNOSTICATION (bidding and bitching) and the INITIATION (entering into the tricking). Every deal of Titanomaxia gives us these three interesting areas of focus. Here we conclude the second deal of the fourth channel of the ultimate saga of Trilemma Supra tournaments.
Initiate (Contractor) = Your final card is the Magician, the Least-At-Last, the terminal Ace which scores a bonus here.
Medium = Your final card is the Queer Ω Archon of Water (Ruler of Cups, King of Hearts, Roi des Coeurs) whose +4 tête points you must surrender to the contract-taker.
Dealer = Your ultimate card here is the HighFlier Ω Archon of Fire (Prince of Wands, King of Clubs, Roi des Trèfles) whose +4 tête points you must acquiesce to the contractor as you finish juggling your flames, and do the daNCE OF the eNDS. After the three players exhausted all game choices the placement of the Ω Fire Archon into the position of DESTINY is appropriate as he symbolizes a focus on the most dangerous extremes.
Scansion:
Initiate (Contractor) = terminate with Key WIZARD Ace of Trumps ("petit au bout"), magick trick.
Medium = unfavorably dispose Ω Archon of Water, acceptance.
Dealer = unfavorably dispose Ω Archon of Fire, focus.
Contractor earns +4 tête points for the Ω Water Archon and +4 points for the Ω Fire Archon (face cards), plus +4 points for the KEY terminal card (Wizard), plus +1 Tricky Point for the tierce; these 13 are added to their previous 42 for a new subtotal of 55 points as the dance ends with this Trick X of DESTINY. Next they will reveal their prior discards and calculate the scores.
"Mimi Making a Hanging Ornament Christmas Card" (Everything you need is in comments) by mimitalks, married w/children
Image by mimitalks, married w/children
Maybe you'd like to do it, too? I include everything you need in the first two comments.
We usually make our own Christmas Cards (ok, me) via digital magic of computer programs, photo paper, holding my mouth right (I already told you it was done by me...). Anyway, here is me making one. That's right. One. The only one in the world like it at the time, I share how to do it here.
I've never made another one, but it was a lot of fun. I used a favorite picture for mine. Ask if you have a question.
You might want to make it in your comfy pj's, like I did...and having a cup of hot chocolate nearby is a must! And please honor the fact it is for personal use only, no commercial use whatsoever.
Merry Christmas from Mimi
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