Don’t go off half cocked, before you are ready
Pack your powder, well
Cock the hammer, fully
Don’t aim, rest into position
Squeeze just enough, don’t pull
FIRE 🔥
You will hit something, the bullseye 🎯
Month: August 2021
Cold Mountain – 50
“If you’re looking for a place to rest,
Cold Mountain is good for a long stay.
The breeze blowing through the dark pines
Sounds better the closer you come.
And under the trees a white haired man
Mumbles over his Taoist texts.
Ten years now he hasn’t gone home;
He’s even forgotten the road he came by.”
8-28-21 Smelly News and Weather Report
“Life is not an accident.” —Morpheus
Today’s Weather…
– The Northern California air is heavy with smoke today. It’s 82F with sun and haze. Today will be partly sunny, high of 100F, low of 64F. I’ve seen better days. But this one is fine.
In Smelly News…
– Northern California is burning
It is a cleansing fire. Dream homes have burned is all. Wood 🪵 fuel has burned is all. I burn, slow burn. Smell of smoke is in the air.
– There is more corruption popping up everywhere now in our fallen politics, out of our delusional fear. Corruption abounds. Yet, as all that is temporary falls away, what we are, remains. Castoffs, a mote in God’s eye. This process of living has altered consciousness.
– I work with electric self driving cars in the dream. I’m here to do the work and I’m doing it. I help train deep learning algorithms to recognize objects and respond. I move massive amounts of data around. Humans are very clever. My approach is a minimal one to support the work, just enough planning. What I am good it is making progress in chaos. Emotions overwhelm logic and reason. How would you program this? Do we want thinking machines with new emotions? If cars had emotion, would they be depressed? Kaizen, continuous improvement, is my way through this. Improve anything I touch and I do. I have a team now I have been building over last 4 months. This has been a new chapter in my own small life and I give joyfully and freely to my team and they respond with their best. AI needs conditioning and training. As do people. It takes practice to be good. To be great? It takes heart. Show me the algorithm for this. I dare you. Ironic while the world burns, I am doing my best work.
“I know this because I just know, it is my purpose.” —The Keymaster
Today’s poetry…
“I dreamed a dream . . . but now that dream is gone from me.”
—Daniel 2:3
The Gates Are Open No. 2
In the deepest dark of the Abyss, I sought my escape.
I heard someone say, “There is no way back unless you find your light.”
No way back unless I find my light?
Hmmmm.
Sounded like some New Age bullshit to me.
I heard someone say, “If you want to come and see me, you can do so from any and every direction, all the gates are open, there is no concealment. In fact it is ‘All Gate’ and nothing else!”
What a strange thing to say in the middle of the dark.
When the dark is all around you, what direction should you go?
There is no direction in the dark.
The separation had existed in my mind only.
I was already that which I had sought.
I was the prison and I was the free bird.
And then I was home again, just like that.
There was a great celebration.
Everyone came to greet me and we all laughed and laughed until my stomach hurt. Like when you have had too much sweet candy.
And I thought to myself…what a strange dream 😴 😴 😴
Writing in Blood
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
—Ernest Hemingway
I’ll read anyone who leaves blood on the page.
The way of the individual is not a lonely path, it is an intimate experience with everything.
Quantum Heart 