Rewatching Slow Horses.
All we are is the present moment. Everything else is imagination.
“Some things need to be unsaved, neglected, forgotten, ignored, left undone so better things can be done. Or so I can spend more delightful moments at ease, not doing but being.”
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon.
Stroke, heart attack and death. The new reasons why people can’t attend parties these days…
Finished reading Zen Experience by Douglas Harding 📚
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway by J. M. W. Turner.
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.”
— Chögyam Trungpa
All the words, ideas and images come and go… and then there you are, free from all of it.
False Start by Jasper Johns.
I’m enjoying reading a number of people writing about their rich and varied rituals as the seasons transition from summer to autumn. They put me to shame. As the temperatures drop I just put my socks back on 😕
The Dog by Francisco de Goya.
‘TIL THE END
Six points out of a possible nine. Not a bad start to our return to the Premiership. If the Stadium of Light remains a fortress, we might just win enough home games to stay up.
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.”
The paradox of progress
I don’t really use AI. I just don’t have any use for it. However, I was attempting to make some text style changes to my blog yesterday and, not being a coder, within a few minutes of using a combination of ChatGPT and Claude I had managed to successfully add some custom CSS to my theme and, hey presto, mission accomplished.
Just to be clear, I’m no AI evangelist nor a doomsayer but it seems to me this is an entirely useful instance of the new tool.
I’m fully aware that as I use AI to solve a trivial technical issue there are those losing livelihoods and lives as a result of the same technology.
But wasn’t it ever thus? Take any moment in human history and can we not observe that while we were making great progressive strides we were simultaneously going to hell in a hand-cart.
Still alive. Still wondering where dinner is.
Good afternoon.
“The harder truth—the one that makes the gurus squirm—is that the present moment is unalterable. It may shift in five seconds or five minutes, but right now is exactly what it is. If you have a thought, it’s too late to unthink it. If you’re sad, you’re sad. If you feel old, or scared, or broken, then that’s what’s happening. You didn’t choose it. You didn’t invent it. But there it is.”
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
— Flannery O’Connor
“Hope is just fear in disguise.”
— Sam Harris