My favorite person is 40 today and it has never looked so good (thanks AI!)
You are the dream and I can’t believe how lucky I am. There’s so much more I want to say but I am letting you sleep while shaking a literal tambourine for these babies so I cannoooooot.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @jduvee
To the guy who, when musing about being poly, said he’d get too competitive over THE FATHERING.
Thank you for keeping us all afloat all of the time. Happy Fathers Day baby ❤️
Taking a brief break from our sadness and stress to post about this personal essay I wrote that’s been published in the Huffington Post this morning.
Thank you @huffpost for giving me a platform to release some of my anxieties. Hopefully airing them out more publicly means I’ll air them out a little less to my very patient husband.
Link in bio ❤️
December 2021, I was 2 months pregnant, sick as a dog, missing the east coast holiday season. Everything about LA felt uninspiring; the same weather, the same couch I was resigned to daily. I was filled with worry about growing a family in a sprawling city; about the lack of community and character. In an effort to keep me from resenting my cross-country move, Josh made hot cocoa and took me to see the holiday lights on Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena.
As we drove through the tall cedars and quaint streets, I thought “cute he thinks it competes with the Macy’s windows,” but something about it, nonetheless, felt magic. The quiet, the warmth, the lack of pretension. “I could raise a family here,” I said. It was the first time I’d ever felt that way.
Months later we moved out of our 600 square foot apartment and into a home in Altadena. In a sleep deprived haze, we’d stroller Lyle toward the foothills,falling in love with the eclectic mix of house styles and people and nature. Every walk Josh would say, as if it had just hit him, “this is so happy. It makes me so happy.” We are about to have two more children and strollering them through the rubble of what was once “so happy” breaks my heart.
So many have lost so much. First homes they worked so hard to acquire, homes they invested so much into to make their dream home, businesses that have been around for 60+ years. While life matters more than property, it pains me to see so many having to notify everyone they are “safe and okay” when their sense of safety has been obliterated and it isn’t okay. Our homes do more than house us; they are tangible representations of our values and work, collections of our histories, the place we go to literally feel safe.
I am so sorry to those who have to do the hard work of battling our corrupt insurance and housing systems and be displaced for who knows how long. I am so sad for Altadena; my perfect sanctuary of simplicity. I hope, somehow, we rebuild into something beautiful and find strength in our community. I hope we come out of this with a profound sense of what can’t be burned. I hope someday my children get to walk into the foothills and say “this is so happy.”
Ever since I’ve been with @brianapozner she’s been working on this mysterious and elusive tarot deck and accompanying book with her best friend @cmj_roush . They have painstakingly labored and deliberated over every word, color, layout, format, choice. The result is truly beautiful. A one of a kind work of art. I am beyond proud and over the moon excited that the world now gets to see what they’ve created. If you are a tarot lover or interested in learning more I highly recommend you grab yourself one their first limited edition prints. Message me or @brianapozner and we’ll give you the details! #tarot #tarotdeck #tarotbook
The idea for Upe_Upe originated almost nine years ago when I had just started learning tarot and was having trouble finding a deck that I was excited about. I could find decks that had evocative, intuitive imagery, but the flimsiness of the paper and the commercial manufacturing didn’t match for me the significance of tarot’s messaging. I wanted something with weight (literally and metaphorically). Something whimsical and spiritual and deep and heavy-hitting. Something where each detail felt sacred and that simply by holding it, I could be transported into tarot’s same elevated consciousness.
When I told Christina the metaphysical, vibrant and transformative quality to her artwork was what I kept imagining, wanting, searching for, we decided to try designing a deck together, naively thinking it might take, you know, a couple years.
After four versions of the book, countless versions of the cards, a harrowing number of proofs (sorry @nonstopprinting ) and almost a decade later, Upe_Upe is here! It is what I kept hoping to have, something that can both serve as a beautiful, elevated object/piece of art and a powerful tool in self-realization. Every page and decision was truly painstakingly labored over. So much so I started to wonder if it was worth the countless hours, years, etc?!
But now that it’s here I can feel just how much love we put into it. And I am so excited for people to get to experience it. If you are interested in buying a copy, DM me :)
#tarot #tarotdeck #tarotbook
It's true... After almost 9 years this deck and book is complete. We just received our first ( very ) limited run! It took forever but we worked with the best printer in la @nonstopprintingla and it turned out beyond beautiful. DM if you would like one! We really don't have that many available 🫣✨🙏
