- there's one problem with the fool card from the tarot. it doesn't show you what happens after the fool blithely steps off the cliff.
see, there's this moment where you're hanging in the open air, just like in a loony toon cartoon, and you're come all over with the complete realization that in the next second you are going to be falling very very fast at the ground very very very far below you. and suddenly, you want to heave your body around and scrabble at the dry dirt and dusty grass on the cliffedge, but you can't, can you? you stepped off the cliff of your own free will, didn't you? this is what you chose to do. and so there's nothing for it, you are going to fall, and fall fast and it's all your own doing and you haven't a clue if you'll actually hit the bottom in a big puff of dust like a smoke ring rising or if there will be some branch or ledge or stone that you can snag onto and use to secure yourself, or if maybe you'll be lucky after all and the fall will become an alice in wonderland portal to your new world.
and really it's all irrelevant, because you're suspended, you did it now and it doesn't matter if it was necessary or foolhardy because it's done.
this is the scary moment.
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Hey TJ! Just wanted to answer your question. Draw SS / Ragdolly Riddler exactly as you would picture him if I were to randomly ask you, "Where do you think he is hanging out in BlogBelieve today?" Whatever pops into your mind and makes you happy. ^_^
Oh, the Fool card, one of my favorites. Too bad there isn't an "empty handed leap into the void" card, right? ^_^
I love those moments. The terror of having done something is exhilarating.
i have to admit, redrum, i am a little bit excited. i don't usually leap, you see, at least not without a hefty dose of research under my belt.
of course, i'm also watching the ground race up toward and chastising myself for being a dunderhead.
we'll just have to see what happens, i guess!
TJ,
Hey, sweetie. How are you? I wanted to thank you for the well wishes you left on our blog, and to let you know we appreciate it very much. And also for your words on J.'s poem. It meant a lot to her.
There is a quote from Hunter S. Thompson that is one of my favorites and fits with you post.
"Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride."
You may not know what is going to happen when you take that leap or get on that ride, but you would regret standing still on the ledge or looking at the turnstile from now on.
I wish you luck, love and happiness, honey.
Love,
Lisa (and Jen)
My problem is that I usually run away from the cliff. Back to my safe little cave and I sit and I do nothing. Not even bothering to go to the edge and look.
I just dream about it...what it looks like, what it feels like, what it smells like, what it tastes like. And I wake up, cold and alone and dirty....in the same place I was yesterday.
Love,
S
Whatever happens, TJ, I hope it's good.
thank you. ♥
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