Eventually, I hope to arrange into short chapters a kind of spiritual memoir about the Apostrophe of time and perception - the time out - the contraction - that was my October, November, and December of 2025. I put a lot of it onto Facebook posts as it was happening. And I have been living …
Author: Perpetua
This one is about AI
You can watch it on YouTube, and you can get it as podcast for audio only. If you're at all interested in what's happening in the world of so-called Artificial Intelligence (as Gebru explains, the term's a problem), you'll want to give this one a listen. For my part, the ham-fisted, knuckle-headed, grunting, ketamine-fueled, YOLO-brained, …
What’s in here
This category takes its name from a quote attributed to Saint Amphilochios of Patmos by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. "Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment 'love the trees.' Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. …
What’s in here
Once, when I was on a plane that was headed to the east coast from the west coast of the USA, a sat beside a man who lived most of the time in San Diego. It was winter, and he was flying out to find some snow and ice because, he said, he was "tired …
What’s in here
This is a category for photos and video, taken while out on a walk, or at a particularly glorious sunrise or sunset, or at a new snowfall. Here is where the natural world can be captured in pixels - so, never really captured at all, but shared.
What’s in Here
This is a category saved for aphorisms and cultural snippets of wisdom that I'd want on a bookmark. "Sit on your eggs." "You are carrying too many melons." "I need to hatch." Stuff like that.
Remembrance of Things Past / And so I begin again
We rejoin our story now, fifteen or maybe even twenty years after my first blog began. That was before I went to Marylhurst to get my first accredited degree, twenty years after my first and unaccredited degree. Before the kids were all launched into their own adulthoods, but while they were beginning to fly. It …
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Three Pillars in the Pacific Northwest 