Connecting People

I found this use of AI creative and inspiring: connecting people who otherwise are isolated and alone.

“Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe is full of human diners enjoying tasty meals — and robots with green light-up eyes serving them. But the robots aren’t controlled by AI or some other computer programming. They are operated by disabled workers who are clocking in from home. “

Ory Yoshifuji of Japan suffered from being isolated for 3 1/2 years when he was a child recovering from an illness. He asked himself, “why couldn’t he have a second body?” He went on to recover and study robotics in college, starting his company, Ory Laboratory, and creating the remote-control OriHime robot. (see link below)

This co-creation is a beautiful example of creativity, caring for others, and using our ability as creators to bring good to the world. May it inspire us all.

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What if this is true…

THE WORLD AS ENERGY–CONNECTED

The world is made of energy
matter once thought solid and
true emerges and then dissolves,
an unseen matrix the birth mother

Our thoughts and emotions
the fertile seeds of creation, are
energy and matter entangled
invisible precursors to action,

Time and space are curved
particles and waves are
by-products of the observer,
the unknown humbling

My heart waves are imprinted
by your brain waves
to touch your mind I must
open my heart

We are creators, young
in our understanding, our
future dependent on how quickly
we learn it’s all connected

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If this is true, how do I embody it for the highest and best for all?

HOPE

Where there is hope
We can move forward

Thoughts create
Through their frequency, attracting and reinforcing similar energy
By directing our actions

Thoughts running rampant stop us from being present
They create stress we don’t even know we are carrying

But as we understand the power of our thoughts, there is hope

This Fourth of July notice what you are focusing on.
Is it what you want or are you feeding what you don’t want?
What is the energy? Notice what thoughts tighten your body. Shift by imaging something you like, something that makes you happy or at peace.

Shake your body and dance.

There is hope!

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Just plain angry

I’m angry. I’ve been angry for quite awhile
But it’s not an emotion I usually allow myself.
So
I thought I was depressed, just overwhelmed.
But I was deceiving myself

I’m stopping myself from living fully
No-one else is
Those deep judgements of myself
Are dominating again

“I’m not enough
I don’t belong
I’m damaged goods”

Only this time, maybe
I can stop, learn to see differently
Create a new story I tell myself

Love myself as I am

The journey inward to the truth of who I am continues. For that I am grateful.

When Sadness Descends

May is hard. May 12, 2016 my daughter died. A year later, May 22nd, my husband died. Late April this year my cousin’s husband died.

I have friends with serious health issues. I’m losing my energy. I’m losing my relevance in this crazy world of AI and social media.
I’m losing confidence that I can know what is really going on even with 24/7 news. There’s sadness seeing the promotion of violence, the lack of care for the earth and the disrespect for life (human and otherwise) on this planet.

When I try to ignore the sadness, it turns into anger that I project out. I know better but it’s been hard for me to cry it out these days.

May is hard. Yet life, like a river, keeps flowing with it’s losses, gains, and inevitable change.

Just writing this helps me. I exhale and settle into this moment, acknowledging what is for me right now. I’ll let the smile come when it will.

Settling down…I am noticing I am just fine. I’ll let the smile come when it will.

MLK

“On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. King told the audience that if God had let him choose any era in which to live, he would have chosen the one in which he had landed. “Now, that’s a strange statement to make,” King went on, “because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” Dr. King said that he felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice. ” from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American, Jan. 18, 2026

We have a ways to go, but may we work together for freedom, economic justice and the awareness that we are in this together as one. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Learn to love yourself.

Holidays

… Bob Dylan, in a 1960 interview with Rolling Stone*, 28-years-old and already looking back sagely:
“Boy, I hurried… I hurried for a long time. I’m sorry I did. All the time you’re hurrying, you’re not really as aware as you should be. You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?”

It’s Christmas! People are scurrying to buy last minute presents, fit in all the family and friend gatherings, attend concerts and church events, and deal with the crazy weather predictions.

Slowing down and letting it happen might be a challenge but it may also be the answer to enjoying the Holidays. Letting yourself be more aware of and present to your experience.

Slowing down as in noticing your breathing. Slowing down as in tasting that cookie you’re eating. Relaxing, knowing you’ll get to the next place in perfect time. Slowing down and smiling at those around you.

My wish for you: May your Holidays unfold in perfect peace, with love, and anchored in the knowing that it is all happening perfectly.

*improvisedlife.com Improvised Life: a treasury of inspiring ideas

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Stillness

Words don’t come
Ideas flow through
Then there is silence

There is a space
A quiet stillness
It just is

So different from
The stories, the doings
It’s hard to share

Yet it is who I am right now

From this place of stillness
Need to listen
To connect

My journey continues. I’m learning to be comfortable with stillness; to not feel I have to talk about what’s going on, current or past. It works better when I allow a the words to “arise or not” when I’m with someone. I learning that questions can be more connecting then statements of what I’ve done. I’m not good at asking questions yet. But I will be.

Ode to Love

What’s love got to do with it?
Old Tina asked
You know,

when I‘m
running my hand down
your soft back, relaxing, sighing
while you gently purr.

when I‘m
crying, reading
about someone
hurt, attacked, Dehumanized…

when I‘m
looking at the sky, jaw dropped
at the everyday awesomeness
of changing clouds and sun

when I‘m
feeling Joyful at seeing
a crown of purple violets
growing in the middle of the first snow

when I‘m
showing up and
holding the space
for you to do the same

What’s love got to do with it?
Everything!

To love!
Our connection
Our Life

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This moment

In this moment I am
Angry, grieving, scared

I breath and center
I am fine

But then it starts again

I wasn’t prepared for the
insensitivity, hatred, fear mongering

I doubt if that’s even possible

I’m older and the significance of that
Is now sinking in

Embodying older not just knowing about it

Time to put to the test what I say I believe:
Oneness, love, sacredness of this moment

Accept, listen, trust, focus on the good

I am responsible for the energy I bring into this world. And so it is!

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