Revisions: January 2026

At the end of each month I post an update called Revisions on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to Bookshop.org help maintain this website.

​If you've visited this space before, you may notice a new name for the monthly posts. My intention is to shift my focus to writing and writing as a conduit for emotional healing. At some point I hope to also publish these posts as a newsletter on Substack, so over the next few months I will be trying a new format. 

I recently took a Therapists Who Tarot training with Dreya Bloom. I was already interested in Tarot & oracle cards, but this took it to an 11. I've already purchased multiple decks and have been drawing a card every day on my Instagram. So, I thought I would do a community pull every month and post it here. I'll share information on the card and the deck.

Though not yet realized it has also been a dream to start a Little Free Library. I will update you here on my progress. 

As usual, I will post the groups I will be facilitating, classes or trainings I attended, and any recent publications. Along with the books I'm reading or completed in the past month and some of my favorite haiku, poetry, music, and quotes. 

Enjoy. ​

​Facilitating in February 2026: 

• Center for Chronic Illness: Web-Based Rare Chronic Illness Support Group, Tuesday February 3rd, 2026 at 4pm PST. 
• Center for Chronic Illness: APFED Connect EOE Adult Support Network, Tuesday February 10th, 2026 at 4pm PST. 
• Center for Chronic Illness: APFED Connect EOE Family Support Network, Tuesday February 17th, 2026 at 4pm PST. 
• Center for Chronic Illness: APFED Connect Rare EOS Support Network, Tuesday February 24th, 2026 at 4pm PST. 

Attended in January 2026:

• Elliott Bay Book Company: The Nature of Our Times reading with contributors 
• The Weekly Muse Zoom Poetry Series: No, Not, Nothing, Never: Contradiction, Negative Capability and The Bliss of Uncertainty with Marie Howe
• Systemic Chance Operations and Other Forms of Generative Play with Jennifer Foerster & Jenny Johnson 

Publications in January 2026: ​​

​Community Card Pull: 

What is important for you to know right now? ​

Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot

Card: The modern interpretation of the High Priestess represents the unknown, mystery, intuition, spiritual knowledge, and the subconscious mind. ​

My Little Free Library: 

(Doesn't exist yet) but it will soon. My plan is to have a Little Free Poetry Therapy Library to bring together my loves of personal exploration and poetry. I hope to find ways to bring more attention to poetry and the ways reading & writing poetry is therapeutic. 

Books I Finished in January: ​

• The Wedding People by Alison Espach 

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Current Book Club Selection: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi 
​
"His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers.

Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their "rightful owners." With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered." ​

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Haiku: 

snow melting . . .
the village floods
with children!
​
Issa​

​Dead Poet (replace): 

After great pain, a formal feeling comes (372) 
by Emily Dickinson 

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'
And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –


This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –​

Vintage Art: 

​Song on Repeat: Undiscovered by Ashlee Simpson

"I can't try any harder than I do
All the reasons I gave, excuses I made for you
I'm broken in two" 
​
Quote to Remember: "You think I’m not a goddess? Try me." - Margaret Atwood