Hey, @bonnierue Welcome to micro.blog! 😊
So Toast has been prescribed some additional strong painkillers by the vet for her arthritis flare up. We’ll see how things go but it’s only a temporary measure and almost certainly putting off ‘the decision’ that now looms sooner rather than later.
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
— Carl Jung
Just back from the first run in what seems like weeks but is probably only a few days. Bad weather and ill health stretch time.
And so to clean out the fires, chop some logs and watch over our poorly hound as her mobility deteriorates.
I do not know what this is nor can I say what this is so I simply leave it as it is.
To understand something, we must approach it without any sense of condemnation.
— Krishnamurti
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
— Blaise Pascal
I haven’t been to look at the river but the brook at the side of the house is now a noisy, raging torrent.
The levels of the river and brook are rising quickly and there’s another 12-15 hrs of this rain to come…
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.
— Wei Wu Wei
Here comes the rain.
At first we think we need to add something, then we think we have to subtract something and belatedly we realise we don’t need to do either but instead leave everything as it is.
Very soggy drive to work this morning. Minor localised flooding has begun. There’ll be some respite as it’s not raining tomorrow but there’s 24 hours of persistent rain on Friday so whether I get in to work or even back again later remains to be seen…
Watched: Trespasses 📺 Excellent. A different perspective on The Troubles and Gillian Anderson is superb.
LLMs are programmed to provide an answer (cannot remain silent when prompted) and cannot say: ‘Don’t know.’ There is no silence, no space, no doubt.
Any system forced to perform fluency and/ or coherence, particularly when backed into a corner, will lead us a merry dance when there is no alternative.
Free from memory and expectation, I am fresh, innocent and wholehearted.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Watched: Steve 🎬 Excellent movie. Old school sensibility but with brilliant use of contemporary filming techniques.
Nothing happens next. This is always it.
The world will show you if you give yourself to the world.
— James Low