Random Reflections
Five Things That Might Interest You
“My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until it Crashed: The Danger of almost-perfect tech” by Raffi Krokorian in The Atlantic - April, 2016 (This smart essay convinced me that we should be driving our Tesla Model Y on our own once in a while instead of using Full Sell Driving (Supervised) nearly all of the time. )
Zone Timer from New Things Lab - $79 (an elegant, simple timer that you can customize for Pomodoro motivation, sitting meditation, or any other time you need to pause when agitated.)
Aura Series smart scanner for home use by CZUR - $231 (I’m using this foot-pedal-controlled scanner to digitize all of my journals, dating back more than 60 years. My plan is to upload them as sources to NotebookLM for conversations with my true self.)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - $0.49 Kindle format at Amazon. (This 1934 novel moved me as a cautionary tale, made more poignant by its autobiographical content. Fitzgerald called his best-known work, The Great Gatsby a tour de force and referred to this later novel as “a confession of faith.”)
“At The Smithville Methodist Church” - by Stephen Dunn - Click here to read the poem at Best Poems Encyclopedia. (Fr. Ed Martin, Pastor at St. Isabel Catholic Church here on Sanibel, surprised me by quoting from this poem written by a true nonbeliever. I participated in a Stephen Dunn poetry workshop 40 years ago in Napa Valley, California, and I loved his wry, skillful teaching. Dunn died five years ago at the age of 82. If he’s in heaven, I like to imagine how pleased he would be to have his poem warmly quoted by a Catholic priest on the Fourth Sunday of Easter.)