DeAnna Knippling

Things I Need to Do…insecurity versus vulnerability…a sacrament of threads So I have things I’m supposed to be doing today, but I’ve run into one of the Things I Need to Do, and I’m going to let it take precedence, because I can. Most people can’t; I know doing this is a luxury. The Things […]

Tools for happiness I’ve been brainstorming “tools for happiness” to put in The Therapy Book (that is, the fiction WIP) over the last week or two. Not that I’m sure how to define happiness. It’s sort of a chicken-and-the-egg situation, where I have to make this list in order to define what I’m making the

Friend visit…photography…ADHD/attention management Mostly today I’m just clearing out some ongoing thoughts so I have room for new thoughts. A friend and her spouse (who I’m going to declare as a friend at this point; I just think he’s cool) came over! I made them food! We talked! Ray hung out with us the whole

Got a couch!…Struggling with sadness…feeling the multiverse…meditation heuristic Adventures du jour! A friend from Colorado is coming over today! So I’m doing this now because I know I’ll forget things if I do it later. We got a couch! I went to Ikea and got one, performing a minor magic ritual where I invoked my

Your April 1st tarot reading! Today’s adventure: a Tarot reading, using the Pulp Tarot Deck, by Todd Alcott. Today’s card, the Fool: cautioned by instinct, driven by idealism, moving the wrong way, right off the end of the fucking cliff. (I pulled this one; it wasn’t by chance.) Yesterday’s card: Three of Wands, upright. Two

Tampa Pride parade… A couple of things that hit me big from the last few days: the Tampa Pride parade, and getting consumed by a new creative work. The Tampa Pride parade happens early, in March. I’m not sure why and couldn’t find any easy answers, but I suspect that a) having it NOT in

Last of the Savannah trip…advanced learning…sometimes you kill the zombies, sometimes they eat you. This one’s mostly going to be about Thursday and Friday last week in Savannah. But I have to brag. A friend of mine’s in Savannah right now and DID successfully get googly-eye pix in the same place. More on that below.

Savannah trip!…travel when you’re not operating in a fear-based econcomy…Amtrak…Tybee Island Lighthouse The Savannah trip went super well. This is probably going to be a long post. (Several super long posts, I think!) But to sum up: we had a great time, I took a bajillion pictures, and I thought about traveling quite a bit.

Dancing in the rain…moving through crowds I’m trying to get caught up on posts! In my defense, it’s been busy. Side Quest (March 13) Most of today has been dealing with Pain in the Ass stuff. Just a relentless amount of it. Brain feels melted. I am cranking the tunes and dancing off and on

Finishing a novel…going qajaqing/kayaking…happiness. The Inuit preferred spelling for “kayak” is “qajaq” and I’m trying to switch over! Adventures du jour! (March 9) I don’t really have the brain cells to write a long essay today, but there are things I want to remember. I got out fairly early this morning, took a selfie–and my