2015.07.25 _ 3

A better day today, I have had a quiet morning to myself. A dear close friend had some very happy exciting news yesterday and I am filled with joy for her. It's always amazing to me how the universe works.

I've just watched the video that Raffi recommended ( https://www.yahoo.com/tech/amazons-echo-brings-the-star-trek-computer-to-124102850474.html --- THANKS, RAFFI!) and, mid-vid, as it were, I realized that Echo might be thought of as a "Continuity Device." To wit: "Monitor voices in immediate environment; modify audio responses appropriately."

I'd meant to imply/suggest "Continuity" in lines 4 and 5 of yesterday's entry when I wrote that the program would attempt to "monitor... modify" - but I didn't state my intent literally enough that Raffi's Echo (and other listeners, perhaps) could grok it. . . [e.g., my mother's 'asking' (translation: 'commanding'), "Would you like to clean up your bedroom now?"]

So, here's a three-step outline for building continuity into the computer program I propose:

1. All unfolding must be step-by-step, with each new step building upon and transforming salient elements of previous steps
2. The core instruction is to self-observe (monitor) the present state [of the image] and then to "grow" (modify) structures of increasing complexity and interest in each subsequent step.
3. Minimal changes in each new image preserve and enhance core elements (themes? motifs? centers? moods? biases?) of previous images. Whatever emerges, evolves, or emanates must be "kin" -- Therefore, no budding of roses out of mousetraps, at least not in one step.

"Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
but rather something to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan edited 16:28, 26 Jul 2015

did my meditations again, filled the seven bowls with water again, did my prostrations .. again, did my prayers .... again

oh and cooked an washed the dishes .... yes, again ... grins (why does this mammal needs to eat and sleep to get older anyways?)

I cook to stay alive to degenerate anyways ... I pracitce to grow, even when I do the same thing over and over and over again edited 15:28, 25 Jul 2015

Musing on the way continuity is about priorities. Although there seems to be so much going on in a given day, week, year, the gardens one can tend and keep up with are actually quite few if one wishes to see them really thrive.

In my life I've often been blessed with clear signals when it comes to where to align main priorities - what the one or two most important things are at any given time - and it is nice when the others flow from that elegantly. When one is sure that they are doing what they feel 'called' to do, in a sense, barriers and criticisms seem smaller, less daunting, even if one can't justify choices to others in a rational way.

So, sometimes the main priority is just to get back to that sense of surety, spending time in ways and practices that nurture that simple clarity back to life.

I really like hearing about others' daily rituals, because I think I've been happiest when most consistent about my own. edited 16:29, 25 Jul 2015

There are some (many) things I wish wouldn't continue but they seem to have a life of their own, persisting despite my resistance. Moods for instance.

Watching the gay pride parade go by, all sorts of people sorted by all sorts of affiliations and colours, seemed by and large happy and even liberated, stepping into their open moments, them stepping through mine...