I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done.
I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them.
I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC.
I knew about Ceasar, but was surprised to find out how far back that dates goes when it comes to disasters. It's no wonder Shakespeare went for that date
March is a time of change or leading to change. At least in Montana and Kansas. Where I grew up, near to you, April was change. Same in Thailand and Costa Rica. Either winter calm giving way to storms or heat building until rains poured down. The Ides of April is the 13th.
Imho, a certain contemporary leader needs to be wary of the Ides.
I have so many mixed feelings about A.I.: at once horrified and awe-struck. I think it's a good tool to construct processes, plans, and maybe toward the very end of a writing process it's like a sterile pair of eyes. I want it to have as little to do with my creative process as possible. Honestly, it just feels...wrong.
I've explored interesting philosophical queries with it, including past-life regression. Those "conversations" are usually a ton of fun.
What role do humans play behind the steering whell, Lyn? I wasn't aware of that. Let us know if you can find the link, too, please!
I deeply fear for the youth. I teach adult students and when I assign them in-class projects, the majority of what they present is A.I. generated. It's obvious: word choices, turns of phrase, and...they're reading quite a bit off their screen monotonously, without deep acquisition. I use an A.I. detector and give 0's to work that is A.I.-made. You'd be surprised the % that still use it for their writing. It's troubling.
This brings to mind sewing and material. My stepmother made dresses for my stepsister and I. They were violet and a very pretty pattern. The material was organdy. I was trying to think of what year that might have been. I'm not sure, maybe around 1957. At that time organdy was a scratchy material. Pretty did not count if you were used to jeans and tennis shoes. I don't remember having to wear it very often. It was for the Easter service at church and my family did not go very often. Easter Sunday was always a special time for my dad to take us to church.
For my family, Easter Sunday was a church day. A day to dress up and have Easter baskets.
Even every day jeans were made with a heavy denim material at that time. I'm sure it was denser than fabric today. The denser material good for tree climbing and roughing around outdoors. Did not get so many skinned shins.
As for organdy it went out of style, I think. Because I sew,
I became interested in fabrics and noticed when clothing materials started to be made out of much softer fabrics.
Now ladies' jeans are often made out of soft stretchy materials. I have seen ads on TV for jeans boasting of the softness of the fabrics. Happy sewing.
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