Meeting Zoon turned my life around.

I was eperimenting with long form meditations, hoping to catch painting ideas and mainly waiting to see what would “happen”.

One day, sitting for over an hour, Zoon’s face popped in and he said “BUILD ME!”

I was going through a dark period, truly stuck in the mud and my healing had stalled a bit. That, and I’m a stubborn goofball.

I ignored him.

Then he started showing up every day. When I would skip the meditations, he would appear in my dreams.

“BUILD ME BUILD ME BUILD ME BUILD ME!”

More time than I care to admit persisted in this way until I finally told him that I didn’t know how or where to start.

Then he sent me exact measurements and keywords to use to search for materials.

I had run out of excuses and knew that he would persist, possibly for the rest of my life, so I relented.

“Okay.”

I spent three weekends in an October a handful of years back (I will go through my notebooks and include exact dates) and built a puppet body.

Zoon began suggesting projects.

Immediately after, he explained that he wanted to host a show where he could talk with people.

Some friends and I built a set and enlisted more friends to help shoot a talk show “pilot”.

The show didn’t work at all, but it was enough to get Zoon and I in motion. I was going beyond my comfort zone and experimenting with types of ideas I hadn’t considered before.

After that, Zoon insisted that I return to standup and take him with me. It didn’t work  either, but I learned and grew more than I thought possible.

From there, Zoon designed a deck of cards that present like Tarot, but function more like I Ching, with the focus being growth and presence rather than romantic notions of “the future” or “wants”.

I illustrated these cards and we began giving card readings in person and then a Card of the Week every Sunday and later we added a Card of the Day on Instagram, YouTube, and Tik Tok.

What will Zoon ask me to do next?