This art of your words is gorgeous.

Turns out, your old post of this quote was so viral that you are included in a packet for small group discussion through Soul Matters Sharing Circle (Unitarian Universalist materials) this month - which is why I'm replying to such an old post of yours :)

In ch3, McQuillan describes the concept of thoughtlessness as defined by Hannah Arendt:

"thoughtlessness can apply to any systemic arrangement where people are being distanced from acknowledging obvious harms and inhibited from feeling any empathy with those experiencing them." (p63).

May you take time to find creativity, joy, and peace in your lives when everything is so difficult in the world. We must always remember the humanity we fight for.

Where does beauty grow? Within.

6/6

I stared at The Night Garden for ten minutes after an initial meditation practice and took in all of the details. It's such an interesting piece and I was sitting far enough away that I struggled to see what was depicted in the metal sphere, but how incredible to see the details afterward.

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The two Brian Connelly paintings will be a highlight for future visits to GRAM. For "The Night Garden," I did a deep viewing through a meditation practice with my long-time meditation instructor, also part of the day's events.

https://www.artmuseumgr.org/events/creative-mindfulness-event

4/🧵

My original poem was:

Disconnect
Electric nature
Glass flowers mimic
Where does beauty grow?
Illuminated

And from the four poems in our group, we selected one line each and updated the fifth line fresh in discussion. It was such a neat little creative exercise that we deepened even further.

3/🧵

We each wrote a poem based on a template provided by the museum, where each line had a set number of words and a prompt. The first line was the initial impression, as one word, for example.

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True, and I didn't mean to steer away from your insight that it's good practice to list as a trigger warning.

I am mostly thinking about two very recent readings where it was included in the prose itself that one or more LLMs was used in the process. Different point than cite at end vs TW at top.

Ugh yes, I just got same pushback from a colleague when AI came up in convo. It's such a shallow talking point that muddies the water. Having read Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social and now reading Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social, I have helpful points to bring to bear.

"AI is less a 'revolution' than a smoothing agent for incumbent powers. A pedagogy of the inevitable does not liberate students; it calibrates them to some forecast of future employment demand."

https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-12095991

Libraries are the same, #solarpunk in real life.

There are many ways a better world exists alongside the terrible one...growing those seeds & using them as familiar models to help people transition conceptually away from exploitive capitalism...
brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/episode-25...
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Well, at least the cat's not out of the bag yet

And my summary graphic that I forgot to include in my thread earlier - I have my 2024 one in my introduction slides to students in my classes, and realized I hadn't updated it when classes began this week.