Tag: art

Art Is Life

As we head into the fall season, let’s begin to dream of what indoor creativity we get to play with soon.

Many of us underestimate the importance of including artistic projects in our life.

Maybe we judge that our art isn’t “good,” as if that really diminishes the personal experience of creation.

Often it seems irrelevant to our progress, even though creative hobbies keep our mind plastic and help us to be better problem solvers.

For me, it’s a matter of health. When creative energy is included in my day, I am happier. That’s it. I am simply happier.

In Tarot, each suit can relate to various forms of art.

How to Help Life Suck Less

Scrolling through Reddit this week, I came across a post on r/ask simply titled, “Does Life Suck? Why / why not?”

People gave all variety of answers, from long pep talks to short, sullen statements to philosophical meanderings.

It got me thinking about how both are inherently true, life has lovely aspects and awful aspects, and we are all going to get a mix.

The real question is how to make life suck less.
It’s different for each of us, but here are some of my personal tried and true ways . . .

The Fantastic Menagerie, 2nd Edition

BabaBarock Studio has produced a cold stamp second edition of The Fantastic Menagerie Tarot, a compilation of images from Le Metamorphosis Du Jour by JJ Grandville, the illustrator who designed the images for the first print of Alice in Wonderland.