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Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2025 11:20:00 AM

be mindful of becoming rigid in the face of my evolving life. it may be a fact of my life, that i have a clue or two of what works for me as i stay clean and live a program of active recovery. it is also true that i can and have become complacent believing i required no “new” ways to look at my life and my recovery. when i got to the rooms, as i have noted in the past, i thought i knew everything i need to know about how to get through life, relatively unscathed. as the storm of the justice system and it consequences buffeted me, i discovered how sadly mistaken i was. these days, it is quite easy for me to lapse into that ancient and very familiar manner of thinking, after all …
as i sat this morning, not a whole lot came bubbling up from the depths, in face it was one of the quietest dip into the void that i have had recently. as i started my day, i was overtaken by my AI obsession and it has persisted all morning, making me fall way off my plan for this day. as a result, i know i it is my choice if i want it to take over my day, or if i can find some balance in my life, by doing something different as this day progresses. i have a couple of phone calls that i have to take, a trip to COSTCO and a new sandwich shop to try out, after a finish my cigar this morning. i think i am going to take a break from job hunt, unless of course there is something interesting in my inbox, after i post this. i am still open to a new idea or two and as i walk through this day, i have the desire to get more than a new image created in ChatGPT.
my life today, is mostly balanced. i have some money that needs to be moved around and an office that requires a bit of deep cleaning and an interview to take with an AI agent. i am not sure which of those tasks will get done this afternoon, but i am willing to let go of image generation and see what i can accomplish. it is, after all, a great day to open my mind to a new idea or two.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

1) That saying of the ancients that 'the partial becomes complete'
was not vainly spoken:--all real completion is comprehended under
it.