Despite the fact that because of my diabetes I shouldn’t have them, I’m finding my craving for a big stack of banana pancakes with heavy cream and blueberry compote almost overwhelming.
Statuses
Beatrix as The Vain Man in SPA One Acts performance of the Little Prince which won the sub-sectional state competition last weekend.
“…because of the Biden administration’s export bans. DeepSeek engineers found and implemented multiple massive efficiency improvements that allowed the company to train its latest models at far lower prices using far-less-capable hardware, and perform inference under heretofore unprecedented memory constraints.
Constraints fuel creativity and innovation. Honestly, everyone should have seen this coming.
I’ve reached the stage in my parenting journey with Beatrix where every day she says or does something that fills me with pride.
Today was realizing the major project she’s working on for American History is essentially a treatment for the book I’ve long been meaning to write.
Listen to The Current’s first two hours of music from 2005
My favorite local radio station turns 20 years old today. This is a wonderful trip down memory lane. I heard this live when it happened and have been listening near daily ever since.
Cancellation: a complex mix of accountability, power, justice, anger and societal change
So, when you start a targeted move against an individual, when you stoke up social media outrage against them, questions need to be asked not just about your target, but about your own motivations. Accountability, in a community, counts both ways. And the biggest question is: is you wielding that power actually helping the people you claim to be helping? Because if it’s not, then you’re just wielding power for your own pleasure.
You’re a bully.
This is important. Very important.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
— Annie Besant
I’ve mentioned this before but I’ll say it again as it is on my mind much these days…
I believe that at the heart of human existence is a natural striving to answer these two questions:
Is this all there is?
Is this all I am?
All religion and spiritual faith, even Atheism, is created to seek and/or provide answers to these two questions. Also, to guide the essential guidance needed once the answer is found/provided.
Pondering what a community built intentionally around exploring these questions unattached from specific religion and spiritual faith but open to all ideas and answers might look like.
When you love something made by a terrible person – annie’s blog
A person is not one thing.
A person is a complex collection, light and dark, changing, exploring, experiencing, making decisions, choosing directions, adjusting, happening.
I’m reminded of the following quote…
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.” ― Gabriel García Marquez
Never live a secret life you’d be afraid to be made public.
Five years of my Day One Journal books.