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An August Experiment

Eleven days of daily links!

Cynthia Giles
Aug 3
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Hello, everyone. Exploration Project has been on hiatus for a few weeks—and I’ve had a lot of ideas.

But first: Welcome to new readers. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll take the guided tour of EP, and browse the archives.

Now for what’s new. I’m a tremendous fan of Clara Parkes’ newsletter, The Daily Respite. It’s the first thing I read every morning! And I’m in awe of Clara’s ability to communicate so much with so few words.

Based on that inspiration, I’ve decided to offer a two-minute post every morning, for the next eleven days. Just great links, and a bit of context.

Here’s my first effort . . .


A Beautiful Resistance is a beautiful website—artfully designed and thoughtfully produced. It’s the hub for several related projects, having to do generally with

plurality, tolerance, and respect for pagan, indigenous, and non-industrial ways of being in the the world . . .

Visiting the site makes me feel as if I’ve stepped for a while into some unexpected yet familiar realm of ideas.

There isn’t a lot of content about Tarot specifically, but I found two articles that relate to stories I’ve covered here on EP.

  • A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left Sacred is really long, and quite thought-provoking. Here’s a short EP discussion of Tarot and the question of cultural appropriation.

  • Art, Resistance, Magic is a profile of Remedies Varo, a surrealist painter and close friend of Leonora Carrington. Here’s an EP take on Carrington, but I never heard of Varo until now. She apparently created a Tarot around the same time as her friend, but I could only find one card image:

Probably The Empress—and certainly deserving of the term “surreal.” For more about Varo, here’s a wonderful overview from The New York Times.


See you tomorrow. C

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