of a sculptor” Giving thanks for you and your faith-filled artist’s sensibilities that you share to help us remember that goodness and inspiration are found everywhere!
I thought of a quote CAF used on her recent interview with Greg Hunter. (paraphrasing) A single snowflake is not powerful, but enough of them can shut down NYC.
It's growing. Light and life will make a grand comeback. Thank you. 🙏
I am still playing around with potential for A.I. to produce 2nd language lessons that are quicker, and more specific to the learner's level and interests than any standardized textbook could hope to be ... still on the cusp of unlocking some powerful tools that automate some of the sweat of curriculum design and classroom management.
But this piece of art brushes against peaks of individuality and the universal that I can't imagine A.I. displacing. It is a great answer to those who wonder if art can be artificially generated.
I can't even begin to imagine a human-generated ChatGPT prompt that could create anything like this. Such a prompt would have to be sculpted from the same consciousness that could produce such poetry in the first place. The law of diminishing returns appears to kick in. What it would take to create such a prompt compared to the lesser quality of what the A.I. spits out would be the equivalence of a huckster's perpetual motion/energy machine.
It is past the witching hour here in Japan, a jazz-guitar buddy stopped off for a midnight chat and visit on his way home from work, and we were talking about the passing of Wayne Shorter, his life and times, and some of his thoughts about the fundamental importance of the zen-like, pregnant 'nothing' of childhood play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtUdqcWQVq0&t=536s, and his anger at the arrogance of those who would rule us ... whether it be by fear or algorithms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uN7B6zpjN0 (Just a heads up that neither my guitar buddy nor myself are Buddhists, and certainly not of the politically active and controversial sect that Wayne and Herbie Hancock have been attracted to, but we both acknowledge that as instrumentalists, what ever gets you through the night.)
My buddy left a bit after 1 am, and then I settled down to open your substack and read your poem. Upon finishing a first read, I was carried away with the rhythm and images, and am sitting here realizing there is no way in hell A.I. could produce this poem, or the impact of a life like Wayne Shorter's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_wz325Zcs
But the life of a minimum-wage-slave at Walmart? Maybe. Particularly if the sociopathic ruling class has its way with us. Great art, and living-as-art defies them with every stroke of the keyboard, every stride around the block.
Great poetry Mary.
I am saving this somewhere on hard disc for repeated reads ... for inspiration, solace, and as a standard that hints at the limits of A.I.
Cheers to you Mary, much thanks, and good night from Japan.
You definitely are inspired all right! You just keep cranking them out. This sculpture, and your words couldn't be any more perfectly matched. I agree with Kathleen's choice of words to highlight. F
"Forces are gathering". Things are looking up, "something is moving", and there is more reason every day to "realistically" imagine reaching that point of critical mass where enough of us are of one mind to put us on a new trajectory.
I just have to add that I had to google that Colin O'Leary. OMG! he is hysterical, hilarious, like nothing I've ever seen before. I laughed so hard at his videos, especially his car rides with his mother. I think if enough people watched one of his videos at the same time we could raise our vibrational frequency enough to blast us well on our way. Here's a couple of links just to give everyone a taste. Dinner with the O'Leary's https://youtu.be/F0VH1RgNsOk 2 min. (watch his mother); and Act I O'Leary Car Ride Show Tunes, about 4 min. https://youtu.be/wkaxyOxabfw (his mother is priceless).
I can't thank you enough for the laughs, Mary. You must have known about his other talents, being the theater person that you are. XOX
“giving thanks
for one another, and the hands
of a sculptor” Giving thanks for you and your faith-filled artist’s sensibilities that you share to help us remember that goodness and inspiration are found everywhere!
Very beautiful.
"Forces are gathering,
goodness is growing:
equal, opposite,
nature’s symmetry
reacting in kind
to meet iniquity, face to face."
Yes.
I thought of a quote CAF used on her recent interview with Greg Hunter. (paraphrasing) A single snowflake is not powerful, but enough of them can shut down NYC.
It's growing. Light and life will make a grand comeback. Thank you. 🙏
Thank you for sharing the beauty and grace surrounding and within you
Mary, I never really "got" poetry, but because you included the inspiration I quite enjoyed the imagery of your writing.
Whoa! 😳
I am still playing around with potential for A.I. to produce 2nd language lessons that are quicker, and more specific to the learner's level and interests than any standardized textbook could hope to be ... still on the cusp of unlocking some powerful tools that automate some of the sweat of curriculum design and classroom management.
But this piece of art brushes against peaks of individuality and the universal that I can't imagine A.I. displacing. It is a great answer to those who wonder if art can be artificially generated.
I can't even begin to imagine a human-generated ChatGPT prompt that could create anything like this. Such a prompt would have to be sculpted from the same consciousness that could produce such poetry in the first place. The law of diminishing returns appears to kick in. What it would take to create such a prompt compared to the lesser quality of what the A.I. spits out would be the equivalence of a huckster's perpetual motion/energy machine.
It is past the witching hour here in Japan, a jazz-guitar buddy stopped off for a midnight chat and visit on his way home from work, and we were talking about the passing of Wayne Shorter, his life and times, and some of his thoughts about the fundamental importance of the zen-like, pregnant 'nothing' of childhood play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtUdqcWQVq0&t=536s, and his anger at the arrogance of those who would rule us ... whether it be by fear or algorithms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uN7B6zpjN0 (Just a heads up that neither my guitar buddy nor myself are Buddhists, and certainly not of the politically active and controversial sect that Wayne and Herbie Hancock have been attracted to, but we both acknowledge that as instrumentalists, what ever gets you through the night.)
My buddy left a bit after 1 am, and then I settled down to open your substack and read your poem. Upon finishing a first read, I was carried away with the rhythm and images, and am sitting here realizing there is no way in hell A.I. could produce this poem, or the impact of a life like Wayne Shorter's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_wz325Zcs
But the life of a minimum-wage-slave at Walmart? Maybe. Particularly if the sociopathic ruling class has its way with us. Great art, and living-as-art defies them with every stroke of the keyboard, every stride around the block.
Great poetry Mary.
I am saving this somewhere on hard disc for repeated reads ... for inspiration, solace, and as a standard that hints at the limits of A.I.
Cheers to you Mary, much thanks, and good night from Japan.
🥰😴
steve
Beautiful, Mary!
It’s good to be nestled in a sandbag with you, Dear Mary. Onward with love, indomitable hearts and excellent poems for the Soul. 🕊
You definitely are inspired all right! You just keep cranking them out. This sculpture, and your words couldn't be any more perfectly matched. I agree with Kathleen's choice of words to highlight. F
"Forces are gathering". Things are looking up, "something is moving", and there is more reason every day to "realistically" imagine reaching that point of critical mass where enough of us are of one mind to put us on a new trajectory.
I just have to add that I had to google that Colin O'Leary. OMG! he is hysterical, hilarious, like nothing I've ever seen before. I laughed so hard at his videos, especially his car rides with his mother. I think if enough people watched one of his videos at the same time we could raise our vibrational frequency enough to blast us well on our way. Here's a couple of links just to give everyone a taste. Dinner with the O'Leary's https://youtu.be/F0VH1RgNsOk 2 min. (watch his mother); and Act I O'Leary Car Ride Show Tunes, about 4 min. https://youtu.be/wkaxyOxabfw (his mother is priceless).
I can't thank you enough for the laughs, Mary. You must have known about his other talents, being the theater person that you are. XOX