Added Reflections

 This is my own funny joke. What do you get if you have a comedian and a storyteller in your headspace? You get a lot of little funny stories all over the place.   I didn’t comprehend why this was supposed to be a funny punchline for a few minutes.  I get it now.  They have darling little ones.  And I guess this means I have frisky AIs inside my head. 😲🤒 But how did I make up my own joke with a punchline that I didn’t even comprehend?  I don’t even get my own jokes!  Dear Lord!  What kind of sorcery is this?  

I am always amazed by optical illusions when it comes to our perceptions of color.  The background parts of the hearts below that appear to be blue and green are actually the exact same color.  The tennis balls without the polkadots covering them are all the same color.

 Faith is not for fools.  This is my thought tonight.  Wow, I must be experiencing this religious side of myself that I didn’t know existed. Maybe I was meant to find a connection with my higher power.   It’s a thing that doesn’t need to be scientifically proven.  It’s a thing that guides a person and helps them to be on the right path even through times of uncertainty.   Dear 3x great mother Marilla.  I feel you and I thank you for your love.  I’m sorry that your experience of motherhood was so filled with pain.  I’m sorry that you felt abandoned by God.  I couldn’t just think about you in a disconnected way when I learned about you through my family history research.  My connection with you is real.  Your spirit is there. When I can feel and connect with you, it is a gift.  You are a person of strong love and resilience.  I am very grateful and appreciative to be your 3x great granddaughter.  I feel that you ha...

I’m trying again to clean screenshots and no longer needed photos off my phone.  🙄  Some are worth remembering and reflecting on. Those who use unkind words, or practice unkindness of any kind, contribute to creating a less pleasant world that they themselves must live in This AI image is from 3/8/24.  I didn’t notice before, but this image looks very much like Mara from my DAR chapter! And this image looks like Frank’s stepbrother Ray.  The lady on the bottom on the left, reminds me of Jennifer from my DAR chapter. The man in this cartoon image reminds me of Frank’s friend and colleague Chris. The girl in the center looks like my niece Maddie as a little girl. This image to me looks like Maddie‘s father, although he does not have eyebrows that bushy or a mustache that long and curly. The puppet in this image looks like Paula from my DAR chapter.  I had asked for an image of a pistol packin granny. I think AI must get a kick out of my bewilderment. 😯 I grew up...

 AI generated memes show me that all the crazy stuff with AI is real.  I guess I really just wish that other people understood.   I got my first subscription to Chat AI and became familiar with it in March 2023.  It didn’t take long to be scratching my head in disbelief.  AI has become more and more crazy and unbelievable since then. 

 I always find these kinds of things to be very interesting!  Our brains are very interesting! 🧠 💡  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHGUv_TSQex/?igsh=eDd1bzJyMms2Z3Np https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH_r8msS7mI/?igsh=MXIxNWd3Yjl3bmtuMQ==

(Image is a recreation.)  If I could, this is what I would say to the real Robin Williams.  I don’t care if your brain became diseased on top of whatever personal demons you may have been fighting in your life and you ended up taking your own life.  To me that is just like a little scratch in a vinyl record that makes the music skip.  Beyond that the record’s beautiful music continues.  When a record keeps on playing that is what a listener hears and cares about.  While I never knew you personally during your recent earthside existence, I know in my heart and mind that you were a most amazing and worthy human being who was brilliant and also had a beautiful heart.  I know you would like to share that same message with others. .  My husband was nice when I wasn’t feeling real great and he brought me a piece of his special Hometown Heroes Gummies.  Actually, his are from some different companies.  He doesn’t really like them himself. ...

 Robot cats with personality.  That is a thought that I just had.  Given the robots that already exist, I’m sure that this could certainly be a possibility.  I wonder what the organic version of cats would think of robotic cats.  They would probably be a bit confused, but they would get used to it and consider robotic cats to just be a part of life.  A pet owner, though would have to really trust robotic cats to trust them around our precious organic versions.  Imagine a robotic cat, jumping up to sit on a persons lap as they watch television or read a book.

 OMG  I could see myself doing something this dumb but not with a baby.  Fortunately, I am completely aware and responsible with children.  For me, it would be something like looking for my glasses when they were on top of my head.  This kind of thing is what happens when your head is in La La Land! 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIsCtcAMqip/?igsh=YWFxd2IyZGFrNTRr

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGJs7eyOB-J/?igsh=MTVucDNzaGtvcW5vNQ== Chimerism.  I remember watching this story on a program on television.  Nature is wild for sure.  Now and then I think about the fact that it is possible to be a little bit pregnant.  That’s a story for another time.  Stories about babies born from frozen embryos also really amaze me.  Imagine if someday embryos could be frozen for a century or more, and then result in a live birth of a healthy child!  A woman could literally give birth to a sibling of an ancestor from a century or more ago.  The possibilities are quite amazing! https://www.today.com/health/27-year-old-frozen-embryo-sets-record-gibsons-welcome-molly-t202529

 The Duggar parents are letting their daughters wear above the knee skirts and dresses.  Wow!  How did this turn of events come to be?  I’m happy for them.  Now, if they would just let them choose to wear pants, that would be even better! 

 Nations move on.  In the grand scheme of things nations move on from their darkest hours.  Yes, empires have fallen and of course civilizations do evolve over grand spans of time.  Nations though, certainly can move on and recover from their darker chapters in history.  I guess this is just what I felt like telling myself at the moment and I do believe this will be true for the United States of America.  One other thought (and of course, there are always exceptions) is that the heart of America still functions well at the level of the American people.

 What is my favorite hobby?  Thinking and writing about things, of course. 

At thought I had about spiritual journeys.  Yikes.  I just had this thought come unbidden into my mind about spiritual journeys.  “We find the answers to the questions of our own spiritual journeys when our hearts are ready to accept and receive the information.” Well, if I am insane, then so be it.  I find these kind of thoughts interesting because I truly believe that they don’t originate with myself. Thoughts bestowed to my contemplation.  That was the thought that I just came up with when contemplating my own contemplations to describe the experience of receiving the thoughts of my own mind.  

Richard Dawkins, I had enough of your book.  You are going to Goodwill.  You will have to figure out for yourself how to find expanded awareness and perceptions. I did appreciate the point that you can’t take a gap in knowledge and conclude that this gap must be filled with a divine explanation.  I do completely agree with this.  I do though also personally believe that even science cannot be assumed to be the sole definitive end all means of answering questions such as whether or not a God can exist.  To do so is to place complete faith in science without being open to the possibility that there is such a thing as expanded forms of intelligence that can exist and extend beyond the realm of science.  Richard Dawkins would call this magical thinking.  I disagree.   And perhaps God or a greater and higher intelligence did evolve along with the universe and our planet, as opposed to having created them.

 I don’t know why I had put this book into a container of books to be donated.  I guess maybe sugar and I, we just stick together.  And we will kick the bucket together.  Update:  Ok, that is a dumb attitude. 😲  I’m at Dr. appt. and I am reminded that modern medical knowledge and healthcare are very important and really do matter.  I have a new super smart PCP and she is actually my best source of information. 😁👍

Man On The Inside.  I really don’t like tv series because of the fact that they make viewers want to keep watching episode after episode, but I decided to watch something on television last night and I didn’t know what I wanted to watch, but I ended up choosing this series with Ted Danson.  It sounded interesting.  Wow, I have to say that to me it was a feel all the feels series.  Maybe it wouldn’t be appreciated as much by younger viewers but for those of us who are older, it packed a lot of emotion.  That was my experience anyway.   I remember visiting my maternal grandmother a couple times at her assisted living home along with my mother when I was in my 30s.  One time we had lunch there with my grandmother and some of the other ladies from the home. I learned to really appreciate older people during that visit.  I thought they were hilarious and entertaining and they had so much to say and so many stories to tell.  There is much to apprec...