Daily Draw: Tarot of Gnomes ~ 8 of Swords

I'm doing this deck a second week as I find the cards so entertaining and diverse. Where else would you find the 8 of Swords alluding to training and exercise? The Swords are still a dark suit of discovery, but the Gnomes are doing something about it, as opposed to the normal Rider-Waite pictures of people bound and beset by their problems and submitting. Go Gnomes!

I'm reminded by this card that our day to day life is what we make it. We can lie down and be steamrolled or we can stand up and do something for ourselves. Each day is full of options, I choose to make the effort to make mine better. And some red shoelaces might be just the thing to help me remember that. Isn't he just stylin'?

"Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?" ~ J. Paul Getty 1892-1976