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#OneDeckGoneWild – The Wild and Wonderful Anonymous Tarot of Paris
I spent the last two days waiting for a jury verdict, and I thought cool, I’ll do something easy peasy like one of those VR tags that the youtubers do. The first day, I started working on Lisa Papez’s #21 Questions. I answered the questions while I was slouched in my uncomfortable courtroom chair, waiting for my phone to buzz with that “they have a verdict” text, but I ran out of gas pulling out my decks and photographing them when I got home. Sitting around doing nothing is shockingly exhausting. Especially when you’ve spent the last two weeks breathing in nothing but crime and mayhem, which is how the first Detective who…
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Oprah Book Club Tarot Style
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, her 100th, is Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful. Hello Beautiful, the saga of the four Padavano sisters, working class Catholic Chicago girls trying to live up to parental and cultural expectations while at the same time pursuing independent lives, is an homage to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Little Women is still my favorite book of all time, so if there was an homage out there, I was going to read it. I can’t say I read it with an open mind. Indeed, I read it with a critical mind, the kind of mind Louisa May Alcott’s Marmee, who gifts her children Pilgrim’s Progress to guide their young moral…
