Hello Lenten-comrade. I am already re-immersed in the real world- it feels so good! I bought a package of A2 paper and started a book-map. It didn't come out as I expected it to, but then I wrote for 8 hours, so... Magic of the diagram!
I have restacked for the first time, hope it helps. Lots here and links for those 'happy bobbing along in the waste stream'. Hope to see some you over at Hadden and Kaira's sometime.
AI and being human? A shout out for the work of Jeremy Naydler. He writes books, and I attempted a couple of reviews at my beginning of a substack. (Mark Vernon wrote a review or two wayback before I caught up with the opus.) I must still beware my Faustian Bargain though.
Hi Caroline, In case you have not already had a response to your 'what shrub' question - it may be tamarisk, which can get much larger but readily 'coppices'. best wishes!
To read your essay is to flow gently down a stream, the bubbling over small stones and the delight of slow-passing undergrowth and blossoms. My favorite line, "I find that Joy has the same weight as water, and is as true a source of buoyancy, as long as I don’t try to grasp at it." Lovely. He Dog, an Oglala Lakota, once said, "We should be as water, which is lower than all things and stronger even than the rocks." Water teaches me so much.
I’m a mouth taper of several months as well and all in favor. Who knew?
Also riding along in your ground grinding words and remembering the pleasure of making egg tempera every day for a couple of years. The loom took me away from it (pick two…), but I can still feel the delight of making “real” gesso. Not that I ground my own chalk then. But now I’m curious
Ahh Caroline yes! the joy of mixing stuff - transforming the stuff and transforming the self in the action. Nuances of colour, tone, texture... attentive contemplation, it’s all there. I loved reading Spike Bucklow’s book on Alchemy of Paint - we need more of this! I often joke with friends on how much I love watching paint dry. Thank you.
Hello Lenten-comrade. I am already re-immersed in the real world- it feels so good! I bought a package of A2 paper and started a book-map. It didn't come out as I expected it to, but then I wrote for 8 hours, so... Magic of the diagram!
Thank you Caroline.
I agree: don't use AI to generate, just for autocomplete and typos I reckon ok.
But increasingly, AI is being used On Us.
I have restacked for the first time, hope it helps. Lots here and links for those 'happy bobbing along in the waste stream'. Hope to see some you over at Hadden and Kaira's sometime.
AI and being human? A shout out for the work of Jeremy Naydler. He writes books, and I attempted a couple of reviews at my beginning of a substack. (Mark Vernon wrote a review or two wayback before I caught up with the opus.) I must still beware my Faustian Bargain though.
Hi Caroline, In case you have not already had a response to your 'what shrub' question - it may be tamarisk, which can get much larger but readily 'coppices'. best wishes!
To read your essay is to flow gently down a stream, the bubbling over small stones and the delight of slow-passing undergrowth and blossoms. My favorite line, "I find that Joy has the same weight as water, and is as true a source of buoyancy, as long as I don’t try to grasp at it." Lovely. He Dog, an Oglala Lakota, once said, "We should be as water, which is lower than all things and stronger even than the rocks." Water teaches me so much.
Deeply though I love the bairns, they are "digital natives", poor dears.
I do still drag my boys them off on the odd jungle adventure.
I’m a mouth taper of several months as well and all in favor. Who knew?
Also riding along in your ground grinding words and remembering the pleasure of making egg tempera every day for a couple of years. The loom took me away from it (pick two…), but I can still feel the delight of making “real” gesso. Not that I ground my own chalk then. But now I’m curious
Ahh Caroline yes! the joy of mixing stuff - transforming the stuff and transforming the self in the action. Nuances of colour, tone, texture... attentive contemplation, it’s all there. I loved reading Spike Bucklow’s book on Alchemy of Paint - we need more of this! I often joke with friends on how much I love watching paint dry. Thank you.