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Kelsey’s Senior Thesis

Kelsey as Manager of Bay to Baker in Bellingham, WA

Unpublished Works:

Kelsey’s Study Abroad Blog (Inactive)

Community Engagement Guidebook (Created during internship at YMCA of Snohomish County, 2018-2019)

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Offline Reading

Kelsey likes to read...

A Softer World
Badass of the Week
Camp Weedonwantcha
Girls With Slingshots
Go Get a Roomie!
Hark, A Vagrant
Left-Handed Toons
PHD Comics
Questionable Content
Smart Girls at the Party
The Oatmeal

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If anyone's wondered why it's been radio silence over here for a bit... The Hermit is why. ✨ Out of the flames, and into the cool, dark night, where I will be adventuring and processing alone. Thanks @sincerely_the_tarot, for this gift. ✨ #sincerely78 #sincerelymay #8thhousetarot #ophidiarosatarot #thehermit #tenofwands

Final thoughts about my #sincerely78 card for April: the Ten of Wands. 🔥 Working hard does not have to mean working to burnout. I can create new systems and routines for myself that support my ability to do the Work that I want so desperately to do, while maintaining my wellness. 🔥 Everything that wounds me, drags me down, chips away at the essence of my soul - I feed it to the fire. Gleefully, and cackling. 🔥 From the flames, what emerges is the dense and crystallized essence of wisdom that I need to move forward. To repair. 🔥 WHAT YOU THINK OF ME IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS. All others' opinions are banished from my mind. (so mote it be, so it is) 🔥 And what I think of myself - well, I have the power to change that. 🔥 I am more than my productivity. Despite what I might believe, my worth and my ability to produce are NOT LINKED IN THE SLIGHTEST. 🔥 Insights, epiphanies, awakenings, and realizations will arrive on their own galdurned time frame. I can relax in the knowing that their timing will be perfect. 🔥 If I ever feel lost in the dark, this is just an indication that I have strayed from my own path. My path is lit up - alight - blazing - clear and bright and easeful. 🔥 I am lighting into new. This is active. This is a choice. This is my consensual agreement with my body, the earth, and my soul. This is a spell. 🔥 I AM LIGHTING INTO NEW. 🔥 Thank you, @sincerely_the_tarot, for this immeasurable gift. From the hot, bright, inescapable fires of April, I have been forged anew. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #sincerelyapril #tenofwands

Full Moon in Libra Pick-a-Pile readings revealed in the comments below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🌝 I hope you all have a beautiful and magical full moon. I'm sending my love across the fibers of time and space to you. 🌝 Decks used: @thespacioustarot #theobsidianoracle by @meganbuccere #blessingcards 🌝 🌝 🌝 🌝 #pickapilereading #tarotreadersofinstagram #pickapile #pickacard #thespacioustarot

Full Super Moon in Libra pick a pile reading! Take a few breaths, ground yourself into the Earth, and pick the pile that resonates with your heart. Answers coming SOON. 💜 Left: Aquamarine Center: Rainbow Moonstone teardrop Right: Shard of Gypsum 💜

Six days into April, and I'm just now reckoning with the card that @sincerely_the_tarot pulled for me as a part of #sincerelyapril: Ten of Wands 🔥 When I opened my #sincerely78 envelope on April 1st, I looked at this card and its accompanying phrase for a few long moments, then put it right back into the envelope. This is not the April I wanted to have, I thought. Yes, you're right, Ten of Wands, I'm overwhelmed. I'm burning the candle left, right, and center - and still feeling utterly helpless. Desperately useless. How is it helpful for you to show up right now?! 🔥 Later, as I went about restructuring my altar to honor and welcome the energy of the Ten of Wands (begrudgingly), I spent some time reflecting on why my reaction to this card is so... heavy. I've since gone away and come back many times. This conversation is a long one, and largely internal. Here's what I can share so far: 🔥 When I take on the weight of the world, I become incapacitated and lose my ability to share my unique flame with others. This is not helpful. 🔥 Tens are the end of a cycle. Now is a time for change. I can choose to move away from burdensome overwhelm and try new ways of connecting and sharing my gifts. 🔥 This is also the end of an old way of living for many of us, not just me. This is bigger than me. I have a small, grain-of-sand scale role to play here - how can I hold this perspective while still remaining accountable? 🔥 My burdens feel so, so heavy, but I feel guilty for feeling overwhelmed when I live in such privilege and comfort. Yet I know that we are all experiencing a collective trauma, and it is normal to feel and be affected by deep grief right now, so what purpose does my self-shaming serve? 🔥 And how many of these wands are really mine to carry, anyways? Am I doing others a disservice by trying to hoist their wands onto my shoulders when my feet are already sinking into the mud? (Spoiler alert: yes, I am.) 🔥 Lighting into new. This feels like a key to unlock the secrets of the Ten of Wands. I feel like I'm swimming all around the answer but can't quite see it yet. 🔥 Stay tuned. More is coming over the horizon. Any day now.

As we round the corner into Spring, Aries season, and the New Moon, I'm taking a moment to return to my card of the month, the Three of Wands. 🔥🔥🔥 Where am I being called to bring my creative expression into the world? How can my creativity, vision, and passion serve the healing of both myself and the collective at this time? What framework have I previously created that I can now build onto to bring my dreams into reality? 🔥🔥🔥 Oh, I have so many questions and so few answers. But I do feel something crystallizing and forming in the heat of the flames. Maybe I need to wait until the end of the month to see what it is. Patience is so hard for me! But this card calls for it. 🔥🔥🔥 I love how the Three of Wands is represented in these two decks: The Wild Unknown shows it as a portal, the magical gateway into the iridescent, incandescent, illuminated majesty of the new world my fire is creating. The three sticks come together to create something greater than the sum of their parts on an astronomical scale. This makes me think of how the skills I've learned and grown into from my wide variety of experiences are being called into play now, in this crucial moment for our world. Compassion. Quick thinking. Persistence. Curiosity. Perspective. Grit. Patience... is still a work in progress. The Oriens Tarot, on the other hand, depicts a flying squirrel with three wands clasped loosely in its tail, calculating its next move. The wands look almost crystalline. This card speaks to me of the boldness required to take the leap into something new and creative. The courage and gusto. The utter fearlessness in the face of potential disaster. Are we not all here in this moment? We have the choice to take action, to make this time MEAN something, to create beauty out of chaos and fear. That's terrifying... and exhilarating. 🔥🔥🔥 I am just one small person, and confidence has never come easily to me. Yet the Three of Wands came to me this month. I am choosing to hear this as an invitation to pour the real, raw, vulnerable nugget of Truth that resides in my soul into everything I do. I don't succeed at this every day, but when I do, it feels right. TO BE CONTINUED...

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