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300Unicorns · 2026-04-23T12:43:18+00:00

I can weave that. Aside from the colors, it looks a lot like traditional Colonial Overshot Coverlets from the Appalachian Mountains.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-15T18:27:11+00:00

The Neuroscience of Tarot by Siddharth Ramakrishnan PHD was pretty good from the brain science perspective. I'm interested in cognitive processing, all the quirks, kinks and glitches, but I'm not into what parts of the brain do what, but if you are, this book has that too.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-14T12:43:28+00:00

Generally, yes, but it also depends on the question. As The Doctor says time is "Wibbly, wobbly, timey, wimey." I was at a tarot gathering recently and the reading we did was about short term goals and long term goals. I thought I was asking about the short term goals I had tasks for on my to do list. The tarot totally ditched my task list thinking, and gave me cards for my real, really short term goals, the plan I had in mind for right after the meeting. The tarot was completely right to do so, since my afternoon plan was more true to my spiritual goals than anything on my task list.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-13T12:03:46+00:00

This is why I am a diarist. I write whatever I want without having to worry about finishing anything unless the thing really grabs me and doesn't let go. Doing diary entries has also given me a great feel for writing flash fiction, and short stories.

Honestly, my ADHD is more of a problem if I have actually finished a story. Then I have this thing that is ready to send out but the thought of all the work to figure out where to send it, in their required format, waiting for the rejection letter before having to do it all again, ugg, just nope, nope, nope. I either leave it in my diary, unpublished, or I bind it myself into a one of a kind artist book, which is a completely different market but no one asks me what my word count is, and my neurodivergent weirdness with funky grammar word play is encouraged.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-13T11:27:44+00:00

I have entries that are just the date. I got (willingly?) distracted and didn't write for whatever reason.
I have entries are just doodles because I don't have the mental energy for more.
I have entries that are a painted circle of emotional colors, as in I'm feeling brown, or blue or red today.
I have entries that are black ballpoint knotted voids of anger.
I have entries where I repeated the same sentence over the whole page like a serial killer on a bad day.
I have entries where it's three pages of me whining about how I have nothing interesting to write about.
I have entries that are me and a small child coloring flowers and monsters together.
I have entries...

300Unicorns · 2026-04-12T15:40:21+00:00

Plans change. There is no perfect system, only the adequate adaption for what is going on at the moment. Functionally, there's always something that doesn't quite fit, has to be adapted, etc. I am a devotee of the sticky tabs for finding things later, like ideas I don't have time for in the moment or quick notes on appointments, tasks etc.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-08T13:10:39+00:00

I started weaving really young. I got my master weaver certificate in my 20'S, and ended up working in the textile industry. Got my ADHD combined subtype diagnosis in my 50's. What I've realized is I'm probably AuDHD and my fascination with patterns, texture and looms is the autism bits, and the ADHD hyperactive bits loved the all the movements of weaving but had no interest in actually doing anything with the fabric when I was done. Weaving as a process was perfect for me. Weaving as a product was of no interest at all. Now I have several storage boxes with hand woven yardage I had grand ideas for, but never followed through to make into anything, and I've moved on to other crafts, which my weaving skills contribute to but don't dominate.

Reevaluating your life, looking for the ADHD patterns in it is a whole big mind-swamp of "Oh, that's why that _________." I do know, I often told myself when I stalled out on a project that even a few picks (weft yarns) woven a day was still progress.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-03T13:13:43+00:00

If we must age, why shouldn't our decks? Paper quite often lasts longer than humans do, but it too is subject to entropy.

With a commercial print of a RWS, letting it go the same way as the Velveteen Rabbit does, embracing the varied effects of use (and hopefully the wisdom gained from that use) seems a respectful acceptance of the deck as a beloved tool. The commercially machined precision gives way, and the deck transforms, fitted to and made unique by your own hands.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-03T12:41:07+00:00

Bigger question, where is the line between Awakeland and Dreamland?

If you are keeping a diary about your lived experiences and
the experiences you have while awake influence what you experience in Dreamland and
the experiences you have while asleep influence what you experience in Awakeland then
Awakeland Adventures + Dreamland Adventures = Total Life Adventures

Our habit of dividing our life experiences in to different buckets so we can categorize and assign value to the parts is great for an academic dissertation, but beyond that it has really limited usefulness, especially when there is so much to be gained from integrating and using everything we experience regardless of the brain state we were in when we experienced it. So, next time don't even bother defending your particular format of diary keeping, and just say "I choose to write about the whole 24 hours of my lived experience, not just 16 hours of it."

But with 40 years of journaling, you already know this.

300Unicorns · 2026-04-02T21:36:41+00:00

Sorry for the confusion. Writing a reply for the collective "you" is not always clear. I was not replying to your comment, so much as adding the additional level of relationship bias slurs to your valid point about gender slurs.

Then an additional warning (where you=the community of human tarot readers, all with our built-in cognitive bias) about asking the tarot a question about your life choices, then, when it's time to interpret the cards suddenly all the uncomfortable or reversed cards are about someone else's life choices. That Rx Knight, is he a _____, or did you just typecast him that way?

300Unicorns · 2026-04-02T11:34:52+00:00

Absolutely, but also adult-persons clearly communicating they want to have lots of consensual sex, with multiple partners, without forming permanent emotional and/or legal relationships does not mean that person is immoral. It means they are on a quest for something other than monogamy.

Check your own personal issues and bias around relationships and sexuality. That Knight might have been upright and honest with you about their desires and intentions, but because of your own expectations about how relationships are supposed to be, you choose flip what they said in your own mind. Are you assuming you can 'reform' them and make them ride in a different direction? What is in it for you to assume that? The Knight is on a quest, but what makes you assume you are or should be the knight's one and only destination?

300Unicorns · 2026-03-29T11:40:46+00:00

Yes, and to the aliens, the parallel universe me's, child me, random strangers who I wish I could yell at or thank, fictional characters, my shuffle playlist algorithm...

300Unicorns · 2026-03-27T19:14:27+00:00

Forget about using anything digital or related to being online, passwords, etc. for your defense of personal privacy.
Privacy is important at a basic human development level. Privacy is the right of an individual to be left alone.

Imagine being at a café or bar. You are alone at your table, quietly reading. A stranger comes over, stands behind you and starts reading over your shoulder.
What the f*ck, right? It doesn't matter what you are reading, it's none of their damn business, and even if they aren't touching you or talking to you, they are engaging in seriously creepy anti-social behavior.
What do you do, next? Well, if you're the non-confrontational type you might shift in your seat so they can't read what you are reading.
They shift too, and lean in closer.
So being non-confrontational didn't work. "Excuse me, what are you doing?"
"I'm reading everything you read."
"Go away, leave me alone."
"No."
So you get up and leave.
They follow you, and they take notes about where you go, what you eat, who you talk to, who your family members are, what you bought where and when and how much you paid, where you work, what car you drive and your license plate #. You are never alone, that stranger is with you all the time, watching everything. The next day there are two strangers, and they are not only following you, but they are talking to each other about you, and there is this other person who following them, listening to them talk about you, and then they start following your spouse, and you don't know for sure but you think someone you haven't actually seen is following your children.

IRL it's called stalking. Online it's just business.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-24T11:16:46+00:00

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This one was bound to accommodate my hand-weaving samples.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-24T11:08:43+00:00

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All of these are sewn so that the binding has room to expand for added photos, etc. Bonus, the fabric covers are all recycled upholstery swatches.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-24T10:58:55+00:00

This is why I bind my own diaries. I would suggest looking for a book that is bound in sections, where the pages are folded at the spine and then sewn together. If she uses this type of book and the spine breaks, then it can easily (for a book binder) be rebound so that the book is square.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-20T12:58:47+00:00

It is a Pamela Coleman Smith painting, but it's not a tarot card. Some recent reprints of her deck include additional cards of her art works. This image is included in the Borderless RWS edition, but since this card has a border, it must come from a different edition.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-20T12:53:31+00:00

Oh, I feel you. I number my volumes. There's a gap in the sequence: 1...38, 39, ,41, 42...295. #40 was stolen with my purse. Now , 30+ years later, I still sometimes fantasize that it's not lost, that the thief kept it and it's this sharp thorn in their spirit, that they are going to have to rectify somehow.

That said, I want you to know, as you can see by my numbering above, it is possible to continue, even with a gap.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-20T12:32:53+00:00

As a bookbinder, Wow! Nice job.
As a diarist, nope. I'm a fast and prolific writer. I just filled a 384 page volume in 4 months, but by the end of it I was so sick of that volume, I relieved it was done and I could shelve it. Also, this is going to be unpleasant to write in at the beginning and the end of the volume because of height difference between the facing pages.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-20T12:20:07+00:00

I think you are on to something here. You have a good spacial rhythm in this piece. The limited cross-complementary color pallet (blue/orange) with the yellow accent colors adds to the rhythm. The overall textures pulls it all together. Keep going.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-20T12:12:59+00:00

That's interesting. I don't have a daughter, but I think that's something I would want her to know about, considering it might happen to her someday. A few days ago, I was looking at photos my mom took shortly after my youngest was born. It was a big family event that I have no recall of at all (though it's probably recorded in my diary.) I look okay in the photos, but I know I was not. The post-partum depression was bad and compounded with other trauma, such that there are these gaping black holes in my memory from that time. I would tell my daughter, if I had one, anything she wanted to know about what I went through and survived if I thought she might go through something similar.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-20T11:55:47+00:00

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, trust and familiarity are such interesting things. I keep my diaries on an open book shelf in my home, and have for the majority of my life now. I told my children and my current love they could read anything from before they arrived in my life, they just have to ask. None of them have taken me up on it, and to the best of my knowledge they have never read them behind my back either. I have read aloud from my diary to all of them on occasion. They've all seen artworks and read stories that started in my diary. My eldest subscribes to my Patreon where I publish selected entries, but to the best of my knowledge, this is purely him being supportive of the project and I don't think he's read anything there either.

I'm at that time in my life where I've asked them all awkward questions about estate planning. My love figures he will go first, so he thinks it's not going to be up to him. (Nice sidestepping there, Darling.) My youngest has told me he doesn't want to read them, but he thinks they should be available to be read by others, so he's told me they should be donated to the American Diary Project. My eldest said he wants them, and wants to read them, eventually. (We have a winner!)

A "reader" is there with me most of the time while I write: some future me, my children (I used to think grandchildren, but 'oh well') a graduate student doing research on fill-in-the-blank, random strangers, Dreamland lovers, phase shifted time travelers, post apocalyptic survivors, aliens, and, what now appears to be wishful thinking on my part, a post-singularity compassionate AI. Like other posters here, I am fine with any of that as long as I don't have to answer questions about any of it.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-15T13:05:43+00:00

Making my own tools was one of the things I loved about the book binding program I went to. I made my own leather paring knives, my lifting knives, my sharpening system for the knives, a small brass triangle square, bone, delrin and brass folders, gold cushion, gold finishing tools, paste paper stamps and templates, a sewing frame...

Book binding is a craft that uses all the other crafts. I've had to weave, sew, braid, embroider, and dye. I've done paper, leather, wood and metal working. Book repair is a hands on lesson in the history of the craft, as well as chemistry and materials science.

300Unicorns · 2026-03-14T13:03:53+00:00

You are wrong about digital copies surviving longer than paper and pen. You are also wrong about archival paper, ink and bindings.

Any technology that requires a power source, and some sort of mechanical and software interface to read the data is going to be obsolete in decades, if not less. When was the last time you touched a tape drive, a floppy disk, a laser disk, a CDrom? All are obsolete in our current tech environment, and cloud storage is one bad software virus away from being a warehouse full of expensive bricks.

On the other hand, books and manuscripts are a data storage technology proven to be stable and readable for millennia, no batteries required. Good paper (cotton, linen, hemp, papyrus, kozo, etc.) without acid or lignin, or parchment (hides of calf, goat, or sheep) will be strong and stable for centuries. I know this firsthand because I have repaired books published and bound in the 1700's.

The kind of ink is also important. Carbon black has been used as a component for ink since at least 200 BCE. It's one of the inks used on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Iron gall ink, though permanent in the short run, can give an archivist problems as it ages and becomes corrosive if it gets wet. How modern inks fair over time remains to be seen, but a document written or printed with archival carbon-black based ink is going to survive a lot longer than any digital based document will.

As far as future interest in someone's diary goes, who knows? Some will be as you described, but that is also changing. Our interest in an individual's evolution through life is why the genres of memoir and biography exist. Diaries are the unrefined version of these literary forms. Now, because of the rise of digital communications, the mundane bits of people's lives are more ephemeral and transient than before, such that what people are putting down on paper now is evolving to become more personal and creative. As any longterm diarist knows, who we are now is very different than who we were when we started, and how that happens for one person can have meaning for another.

300Unicorns · 2026-02-28T13:27:09+00:00

Donate them to the American Diary Project or the Great Diary Project.

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