A Christian mystic's Psalm 8, with respectful gratitude to the original I AM. Creator. How wonderful is your name in all creation! Your splendor fills the universe. Against raging chaos you built your realm from the smallest atoms; and your great light bound the darkness. I see the beauty your hand has painted, constellations like brushstrokes in the sky... What is humanity, that you remember us? that your thoughts turn kindly toward us? Made in your likeness to make, in Spirit inspired, you hand us the brush and invite us to bring color to your kingdom sketch. I AM. Creator. How wonderful is your name in all creation!

Monthly maker post! I feel like I've knit a lot, and I also feel like I haven't made very much... possibly because there aren't many pictures. First off the needles, I knit every possible yard of the yarn that I had for it into Fingerless Lajish  (link goes to Ravelry). There was just a dab left of the green and white, obviously more of the black because I only made one pair with the black background. I'm keeping those, I gave away two pairs of the others, and I think I'll put the other two in the food pantry box near us this winter. A fun little side project was this commission: two Star Wars themed baby hats. I didn't use a pattern (because where's the fun in that?) but I am actually quite pleased with how they turned out. I don't crochet very much but I do enjoy it when I do. Most recently, I'm working on a very large (or small, depending on what you're measuring - overall it's a big thing with a lot of stitches, with fine yarn on tiny nee...

Several years ago, I very cautiously went to an intro to astrology class at Bella Vita Jewelry, and had the pleasure of meeting Michelle of Moon & Myrrh. She is a delightful, thoughtful, and informed human being. The whole concept made me wildly uncomfortable but also spoke to me on a certain level, so I did my own research and asked lots of questions (which she answered very graciously). I slowly (by slowly please understand that it took a solid year and a half--I do not embrace change willy nilly) began to integrate what I was learning into my life, because it honestly just made so much sense. I'm a Gemini sun (that points to my core values and motivations), Capricorn moon (that's the framework my emotions hang on), and a Leo rising. Rising sets off your own astrological year, which is why these blog posts have been organized the way they have. Rising/the first house is the house of self and appearance - and Leo is bold, confident, generous but also craving recognition. (...

After doing an updated intro post on Instagram several weeks ago, I asked myself why bother with a reintroduction? Why not just switch up my content to reflect who I am now?  but I thought about it and decided that integrity demanded one. If we view "integrity" as "the state of being whole and undivided" (one of its definitions, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary), then I want to give the people who knew me/followed me before a clear opportunity to part ways if they don't share my new path. I'm not here to force anything on anyone. And also, I want to have integrity within myself. I treat the identities of others with respect, looking up name pronunciations and doing my best to remember pronouns and celebrating each phase of others' personal evolutions--and I should do the same for myself. If I'm walking through my house, comfortable and confident, and I say aloud "it's a they day!" I should (and did, when it happened) stop...

A year ago, I revamped my blog and at the same time began a journey of self discovery that was long overdue. I worked my way from the outside in, using the twelve astrological houses as a guide--and while I was expecting this to be a perpetual onion or spiral staircase, it turned out to be more of an unpacking. There was a lot of journaling, a lot introspection, and a few terrifyingly untethered months where I struggled to separate something I desperately wanted to keep from the grasp of something that I absolutely could no longer tolerate. So here we are again, and here I am, a wholly different person than I was a year ago. I haven't shared a tremendous amount about the process, since it was  a process, but now that I've gotten my personality down out of the box it was stashed in in my mental attic with no intention of ever putting it back, introductions may be in order. Hi! I'm Sarah Jo. My pronouns are she/they. I live in central Arkansas. Some words that describe me (I ...