I still love find new things to discover, learn about, experience, do. But new patterns are harder to develop than they once were. I have friends who are aging into an older age than the one I am in. Being older is new for me. I am trying to learn how to do it properly. […]
I Want To Be A Media Monk
Spotting Deep-fakes, Media-manipulations, and AI-Generated B.S. I don’t wanna! I think I liked it better when telling lies was not so common, and when live and let live was a guiding perspective. Apparently most of us are ill-prepared to evaluate what we read, hear, or view. I know in most of my early formal education, […]
LISTENING
Would you rather lose your sight or your hearing? Of course the answer is, “Neither!” Duh. But I was thinking about how at one time I had stupid conversations about this question. The conversations were not actually stupid, but the question was. We never are granted such choices. Losing the ability to use a sense […]
Keepsakes, Karma, Kuan Yin, and Kosher Food
As always talking to other writer’s on Wednesday nights is a highlight of my week. It gets my brain juices flowing. Tonight, as I was trying to write this to post early tomorrow, I was lacking inspiration. Within a few minutes Instant Karma was playing in my head, as Bodhisattva/ Goddess of Compassion, Mercy and […]
Judges as Politicians and Moralists
I have to cover this topic. It is taking up so much of my mind-space, and heart-space. Judges are supposed to interpret the law, not legislate, and not spread their own beliefs. What the hell is wrong with our culture, our U.S. culture, that we are allowing the destruction of the our beautiful experiment in […]
Information
Information is not data. Neither is it what you know. Information as defined by Gregory Bateson. Information is any difference that makes a difference. Gregory Bateson He also said something to the effect that when one thing makes it on to our map it becomes difference, or information. Anything in an environment is only real […]