Some AI Candidate Images for a Postcard Design for ShoestringOperations.com websites ad

Back will have a gluesticked text block and handwritten notes. This is a first attempt and may change. They’ll have to be cropped to fit a 4×6″ print. Vote for your favorite! I’m leaning towards the first one with what looks like an EU flag in the back or maybe the second. https://shoestringoperations.com is unfinished […]

3 More Sample Readings Using The Key of Sparrows

Full key: https://tkos.dev The symbols were selected using random.org which uses ‘atmospheric noise’ (I think electromagnetic noise) to generate true random numbers. The system was designed such that you can use three coin flips to generate a binary number to select the column and roll a dice for the row.

Some sample The Key of Sparrows readings from postcards

One of 6 readings: Might suggest (if accurate) the recipient getting a housemate or moving in with a partner: “Ordering thoughts. Rethinking, reorganizing your mind. The order in which things are done is important here. The meeting of two minds. Two people. Two mindsets. Coming together as a household. Don’t we all contain multitudes?”

The Key of Sparrows Product Launch

Got my first The Key of Sparrows product online, available for purchase. 12×18″ laminated print with brief instructions on the back.

A modern non-tarot oracle, with symbol choices oriented towards science, psychology, mindfulness, modernity, and realism.

Dreaming Plants

Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks […]

Space

How a space is organized (or un-organized) matters. Where is your jar of pens? Do you have one? Are they scattered everywhere, or forever going missing? What do you see from where you sit? Is it demoralizing? Is it pleasant? Is it beautiful? As I sit here, there are 8 containers of pens and markers […]

Standing Before the Mirror Unadorned

Inserting the pleasure. Finding no connections between plan & act. Alighting — the pathway of lightning. The lightning alit on the pla[i]n[e]. The lightning dismounted the towering, charging storm-cloud. Rhythm. Stop. Spot. Ought ex em, clap thunder, run, pitty-pat. Answer beside. Sit beside. Answer back the talking drum. Keep clear of the combine. Athwart the […]