thank you for sharing such a moving and provocative piece of writing - it's reading pieces such as this help inspire my own hope in our collective future
You are so very big--big in machines, ammunition, noise, killing, blood and loss of Home. Yet even in my own smallness I am part of your will and agency. I crumble in tears & heartbreak to say this and yet I am called to create an antidote. Can my smallness really make a difference? We see your
kidnapping of lavender--imbuing her name with the small, taste and violation of killing. In response I call for altars to lavender everywhere---in homes, in gardens, in schools, in town plazas---taking back lavender as sacred: lavender's beautiful purple flowers and gray green leaves, lavender's sweet scent, lavender's medicine for calm tranquility and healing sleep, lavender of medicine bag, lavender of witch's apothecary, lavender of nature's paintbrush---lilac & wisteria, crocus & tulip, violets and clematis! Can this make a difference? Offered in faith, hope, energy of intention ... beauty and community ....Yes! Signed in memory of my own life-giving blood, in humble admission of my complicity and in offering of altars as medicine....as antidote
Very disturbing and gorgeous piece coming after reading about the Death of Hollywood in Harper’s and dozens of layoffs every week in creative sector. My hope of survival usually comes out of the stand up comedians who are carving out a badly needed critical space in which to express their humanity, and crying with the young, mainly Black and other POC who are holding passionately positively reactive reviews of musicians of the 50s-70s and who talk about music today as not holding a candle to the expression of feelings of before and esp the dead weight of tech on songs today. I found the last para of your piece to be where we need to go. What are the sectors that have escaped the most from AI and the corpses (corporations) that have such a stranglehold on humanity.
Dear Teru: You speak so eloquently of what is needed, the consciousness to refuse AI, the need to find the ways under, through, over, away. The real music.
"Rather than focusing on AI, our commitment to living on behalf of all life at each moment may be the critical medicine." Indeed what is fed into AI but human knowledge and experience, and really all we can do to affect AI is to live righteously and mindfully.
thank you. Maybe not ALL we can do but what, at the least, we can do, is to live righteously and mindfully. If we create a field of living righteously and mindfully then, by default, the engineers or create and teach AI, may shift , without even thinking about it, what is programmed. At this moment, given such programs like lavender and Where's Daddy, the programmers, and engineers, and creators are living light-years away from righteousness and mindfulness.
We must use all of our power to create LIVING art, music, community, connection, healing/medicine, children. culture... and altars to lavender!
And stop giving our power to the computers. Stop consuming computer entertainment. Stop playing computer games. Stop using them to shop. Stop using them at all and go play, cook, socialize, throw a ball, ride a bike, celebrate being alive!!!
Stop relying on them for our communication? much trickier...
Love to all the living thriving creating beings out there!!!
thank you for sharing such a moving and provocative piece of writing - it's reading pieces such as this help inspire my own hope in our collective future
And your response, thank you, helps create the community of consciousness that is needed for our, human and more than human, survival.
Memo to: War From: Lindsa Sunflower Date: Now
You are so very big--big in machines, ammunition, noise, killing, blood and loss of Home. Yet even in my own smallness I am part of your will and agency. I crumble in tears & heartbreak to say this and yet I am called to create an antidote. Can my smallness really make a difference? We see your
kidnapping of lavender--imbuing her name with the small, taste and violation of killing. In response I call for altars to lavender everywhere---in homes, in gardens, in schools, in town plazas---taking back lavender as sacred: lavender's beautiful purple flowers and gray green leaves, lavender's sweet scent, lavender's medicine for calm tranquility and healing sleep, lavender of medicine bag, lavender of witch's apothecary, lavender of nature's paintbrush---lilac & wisteria, crocus & tulip, violets and clematis! Can this make a difference? Offered in faith, hope, energy of intention ... beauty and community ....Yes! Signed in memory of my own life-giving blood, in humble admission of my complicity and in offering of altars as medicine....as antidote
Thank you, Lindsa, for this necessary antidote and reversal, this restoration of what matters. May the true lavendar undo the lavendar bot of war.
Very disturbing and gorgeous piece coming after reading about the Death of Hollywood in Harper’s and dozens of layoffs every week in creative sector. My hope of survival usually comes out of the stand up comedians who are carving out a badly needed critical space in which to express their humanity, and crying with the young, mainly Black and other POC who are holding passionately positively reactive reviews of musicians of the 50s-70s and who talk about music today as not holding a candle to the expression of feelings of before and esp the dead weight of tech on songs today. I found the last para of your piece to be where we need to go. What are the sectors that have escaped the most from AI and the corpses (corporations) that have such a stranglehold on humanity.
Dear Teru: You speak so eloquently of what is needed, the consciousness to refuse AI, the need to find the ways under, through, over, away. The real music.
"Rather than focusing on AI, our commitment to living on behalf of all life at each moment may be the critical medicine." Indeed what is fed into AI but human knowledge and experience, and really all we can do to affect AI is to live righteously and mindfully.
thank you. Maybe not ALL we can do but what, at the least, we can do, is to live righteously and mindfully. If we create a field of living righteously and mindfully then, by default, the engineers or create and teach AI, may shift , without even thinking about it, what is programmed. At this moment, given such programs like lavender and Where's Daddy, the programmers, and engineers, and creators are living light-years away from righteousness and mindfulness.
Video killed the radio star
Internet killed the video star
AI killed the internet star
And will ultimately kill us all
Perfect, Deena.
We must use all of our power to create LIVING art, music, community, connection, healing/medicine, children. culture... and altars to lavender!
And stop giving our power to the computers. Stop consuming computer entertainment. Stop playing computer games. Stop using them to shop. Stop using them at all and go play, cook, socialize, throw a ball, ride a bike, celebrate being alive!!!
Stop relying on them for our communication? much trickier...
Love to all the living thriving creating beings out there!!!
Viva la Vida!