Thanks for commenting, Suzanne! I am so happy to see your name - I remember fondly when we were peering into the same zoom room together, talking about Laux and Bass - beautiful Sundays!
I'm reminded of an interaction I had with a young man who, after I explained my process of manually keying my first draft poems from my notebook into the computer, seemed almost indignant when I said I wasn't interested in all the ways AI could potentially "speed up" that process via dictation or whatever. I could almost see his synapses misfiring when I told him, "But being slow about it is the entire point."
Oh man, I love this so much, Chris. The best part of the story is the misfiring synapses, the disbelief on the young man's part, that you couldn't see the sense in speeding up. Like, why WOULDn't you go as fast as possible? I recently experimented with PI for the first time and typed that I'd had a stressful experience, and the machine said some consoling lines back, and then called me Rachel. (!) So I think I'm good without it.
Slowly stirring the steel cut oats as I read this. Both nourishing!!!
Thank you, Laura!
Thank you for this reminder to slow down and take in surroundings, to listen to birds and as always to write. Appreciate you friend.
Thank you, lovely Karen!
Well I wouldn't mind one of those postcards... happy to do an exchange. But my address is uncertain the rest of the month...
I know where you live...mwah ha ha.
Wonderful to read this, Laura. Thank you so much for the collages by W.S. I had no idea! I will try to write on foot in the new year.
Thanks for commenting, Suzanne! I am so happy to see your name - I remember fondly when we were peering into the same zoom room together, talking about Laux and Bass - beautiful Sundays!
I'm reminded of an interaction I had with a young man who, after I explained my process of manually keying my first draft poems from my notebook into the computer, seemed almost indignant when I said I wasn't interested in all the ways AI could potentially "speed up" that process via dictation or whatever. I could almost see his synapses misfiring when I told him, "But being slow about it is the entire point."
Oh man, I love this so much, Chris. The best part of the story is the misfiring synapses, the disbelief on the young man's part, that you couldn't see the sense in speeding up. Like, why WOULDn't you go as fast as possible? I recently experimented with PI for the first time and typed that I'd had a stressful experience, and the machine said some consoling lines back, and then called me Rachel. (!) So I think I'm good without it.
"birds making important gestures with their hands" - snorted in the cafe at this. Love these!!