Christmas 2025
Dec. 25th, 2025 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
k_sereinroomA peaceful, lovely day. Out the window, I could see the changing, dramatic cloud patterns, and there were several rain showers.
The roasted vegetables are very tasty. I have enough left over for two burritos with cheese and a few beans.
I began reading two of my new books. I’ll have four books going now, and reading is easier when I get to it before ever going online each day. One is the expanded edition of Life Changing Foods by Anthony William, which has more information than the original published in autumn 2016. It’s a hardback book, hefty and awkward to handle.
The other book is Finding Radical Wholeness by Ken Wilber, the first book I’ll have read by him. Some parts of the introduction are annoying, and I don’t care to listen to him in interviews, but at this point I’m going to like the material. It doesn’t seem to be unfamiliar, just organized in a way that I like – a bigger picture view.
This evening I’m watching old Rosemary and Thyme episodes on YouTube. It will be about the fourth re-watching of the series, which is relaxing.
These days I’m more mindful of my use of AI, after learning my way around and concluding my own opinions. Years ago, I played with Deep Dream Generator, and still visit occasionally. This piece was run through DDG, using one of my watercolor paintings, and the prompt to create Christmas art. I rather like it, but a human would likely not use composition where some trees are partially off the page, in particular the ones at the bottom.
The roasted vegetables are very tasty. I have enough left over for two burritos with cheese and a few beans.
I began reading two of my new books. I’ll have four books going now, and reading is easier when I get to it before ever going online each day. One is the expanded edition of Life Changing Foods by Anthony William, which has more information than the original published in autumn 2016. It’s a hardback book, hefty and awkward to handle.
The other book is Finding Radical Wholeness by Ken Wilber, the first book I’ll have read by him. Some parts of the introduction are annoying, and I don’t care to listen to him in interviews, but at this point I’m going to like the material. It doesn’t seem to be unfamiliar, just organized in a way that I like – a bigger picture view.
This evening I’m watching old Rosemary and Thyme episodes on YouTube. It will be about the fourth re-watching of the series, which is relaxing.
These days I’m more mindful of my use of AI, after learning my way around and concluding my own opinions. Years ago, I played with Deep Dream Generator, and still visit occasionally. This piece was run through DDG, using one of my watercolor paintings, and the prompt to create Christmas art. I rather like it, but a human would likely not use composition where some trees are partially off the page, in particular the ones at the bottom.
Painting
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