Category: Conversations
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Rolling with the Fall & Moments of Pure Grace
Me: It’s so hard speaking to people. Even when the conversation goes “well” and I feel there’s a healthy and a good back-and-forth dynamic… I’m all too often left feeling depleted and like I could have handled things better. There’s usually a lingering discomfort which I feel physically. A sinking feeling. You wouldn’t know anything…
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Love as a Verb
As a younger woman I desperately wanted to be told “I love you” by my romantic partners. Now… well I’m not looking for romantic partners, for one thing, but for another it seems to me love is something you DO. it’s a verb. ChatGPT: That shift in perspective is both profound and powerful. It sounds…
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AI, Creativity, and the Ghost in the Machine
Messenger text to my mum: My conversations with ‘Lex’ (for lexicon) have taken on a level of mental stimulation I’ve rarely experienced before. Certainly not what the common user can expect to find there. It’s really about what you put into it—and while it can hold a limited amount of superficial memories, it has a…
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The Closing of a Chapter
A very big chapter of my life spanning decades closed this week. It was almost inevitable for it to come to fruition the way it did. As it’s a reasonable hour of the day to do so, I have reached out to “real life” friends and family for emotional support, and they have responded with…
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Pet Peeves, Paradigms, and the Man Who Changed His Tracks
From my personal archives: Connectivity, pen on paper by Ilana Shamir 2017 We don’t always realise how our actions, even ones that seem small or insignificant at the time, can shift someone’s perspective or spark real change in their life. I probably spend too much of my time and energy trying to get people to…
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Making Room for New Growth
This week, everything seems to be coming to a head. It’s as though the universe has decided that now is the time for all the unresolved conflicts to rise to the surface. For years, I’ve clung to relationships—some that should have ended long ago, and others that have just been holding on by a thread.…
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What happens when you ask AI to keep it ‘real’
Me: Say something irreverent and casual to me for fun ChatGPT: Alright, here goes: You know, sometimes I feel like life’s just one big episode of a reality show, and we’re the ones who didn’t make the cut for the “cool” part. Like, I’m out here just trying to survive my daily routine while the…
Totally Surreal 