fajrdrako | Barter...

I love a good trade. It's far better than buying things. More satisfactory.

Two good trades this week:

The first was with Pim. More than a year ago

masseru and I gave her a deck of Tarot cards that I'd spent some time picking out - The Legacy of the Divine Tarot. Which I keep wanting to call The Tarot of the Divine Legacy, also a name with panache.

So now I'm into Tarot and she's more into oracle cards and the I Ching, and she let me borrow her cards. I fell in love with them. I was hesitant to ask her if I could buy them from her - I'd feel such a heel, asking for something I gave her back. But everyone said "oh, go ahead, ask", so I did, and Pim had the perfect answer: she'd trade them for one of my decks.

So I gave her free choice, and she chose an oracle deck - a beautiful deck, yes, but not one I'd ever be likely to do a reading with. Very interesting cards. So she's happy, and so am I.

These are currently the cards I use for readings, or to practise readings.

The other trade was my desk chair. A few years ago,

masseru got a new desk chair from Costco, a large padded one that's very comfortable to sit in. She gave me her old chair, more or less in this style. I love the way it looks. It needed some repair a few times... and wasn't the most comfortable chair I'd ever tried. Beulah found me a replacement, but after a while I went back to the wooden chair, because I love the style of it.

Then recently I had a back pain problem, and that worried me. Did I need a better chair? Sheila offered me Harry's, but we haven't been able to get it transported from her place to mine. And then

masseru said something about how she didn't like her desk chair much, she preferred the old one that I had.

Well. "Want to trade?" I said. She did. It was a matter of minutes to take my chair up to her place and hers down to mine - minutes, that is, after I replaced the broken castor. That chair has been somewhat tottery lately.

My new chair looks like this: