It’s Taurus season, and that means it’s time to focus on stepping out of our comfort zone. Change is the rule in life, and though it may not be comfortable, we find growth, blessings, and expansion when we move beyond the familiar and routine. This month, examine where you’re living in comfort and where you're called to venture beyond it. Make the effort to bring your awareness to the present and remember that challenges herald positive transformation, even if you can’t quite see it yet. Armed with this consciousness, an even more authentic version of you and your life can begin to emerge.
Hoping to get back into the crafting groove soon - this winter has been rough. Feeling a bit better. My goal is to have enough materials to do a craft show this fall, for the holiday season. Don't know if I'll make it, but I'm going to try, lol.
Here's one that I have in stock, and materials for one or two more. Of course, the fabric can be any design or main color. Just let me know!
A little over a year ago, originally due to an interest in the deeper history of #compilers, I started diving deep into the #Talmud, studying #Aramaic, #gematria, and doing #DafYomi etc in what has become my deepest engagement with the rabbinic corpus yet -- the Talmud isn't a compiler but rather an extensible interpreter, compiled by compilers over the course of many centuries (build times have gotten significantly faster, my G-d), with novel extensions in the form of rabbinic commentary, glossia and the like being added nearly every century by publishers competing to compile the most elegant editions (Vilna Shaws being paradigmatic). And through studying Talmud and the greater body of rabbinic literature I've found myself encountering #magic/sorcery occasionally, and I just gotta say -- the #SICP metaphor of programming as pure magic, with the #hacker as a sorcerer, goes insanely deep when you start to dig into it.
For those with the same extremely niche set of interests (half my mutuals): gematria is like machine code, the Mishnah is like an assembler, the Gemara is like L1, the Rashi is like L2, and so on, with #kabbalah being for the talmud what graph theory is to register allocation. And Sefer Toyrah HaKoydesh is the reality their seeking to represent, an thus elaborating in the process.
I've been working on some graphics for new shadow box manifesting sets, in the theme of love, of course, since valentines day is approaching. Here's what I have so far...
These graphics will be printed on paperboard and glued into the shadow box, similar to the Fortune test design. These will also come with a plaster LOVERS tarot.
"La nueva Jerusalén será eternamente un cristal de antimonio rojizo y transparente, como una piedra (preciosa): es el nuevo cielo y la nueva tierra, donde moraremos todos nosotros."
Some recent additions from my personal library, hard to find works in very good condition added to The Curiously Curated Collection of Vintage Books at KnoxvilleRose on Etsy 🌹📚🌹
At collection opening, NLI says it seeks to illuminate new genre of Jewish research through the ancient scrolls, shed light on mystical teachings for scholars and amateurs
I am pleased with this first one. I don't know why I chose this background image in particular. I printed out several and this one just wanted to go first, lol.
I'm on the lookout for cool out of copyright background images. I am also cropping and editing some of the old womble AI stuff.
This weekend I finished up my next test design - Lady Wisdom! Strategy is her forte, and numerous arts & crafts. She was present at creation, says Psalms, and is traditionally depicted with an owl & the spear of truth.
This cast went pretty well. I do want to find some small real metal tubes for the spear.
Israel National Library unveils collection of 36 kabbalistic tree-like ‘maps of God’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
At collection opening, NLI says it seeks to illuminate new genre of Jewish research through the ancient scrolls, shed light on mystical teachings for scholars and amateurs