@northernbassist That just made me giggle. 😊

We can do this! Who’s with me?

@ps9714 So they use AI to see if any one is using AI? But AI is based upon thousands and thousands of previously written work by humans.

I still don't get it.

@n8evans I see you have not yet met my mother. LOLOLOL

I don't understand how AI is helpful. My daughter wrote a few papers for her college class and the professor gave her a lower score because they sounded too much like AI wrote them. My daughter had to request they be rescored and said she couldn't help that her prior teachers taught her proper grammar and sentence syntax. Her grades were ultimately changed to As. But still.. how did that help her? She didn't need to make any revisions, instead the professor had to allow for error on his end.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus

The change is starting. I’m seeing yellow leaves on the trees.

@Yarnchick If only the Shaggy chin look from the Scooby-Doo crew was an acceptable fashion trend for women. LOL

@Oma_Trisha I do that regularly.. when it just sits in the right spot in the soul.

@ReneeVoiceBrand 😂

Sharing the artwork of Blake Chamberlain, who is from my hometown.

#politics

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@JGNWYRK Thank you for sharing this! 🤗

i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in
burning flowers
i will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
alive
with eyes closed

~ e.e. cummings

#poetry

I was fortunate to move into a place that has a row of tall trees and a little creek running behind it.

When I feel overwhelmed or contemplative, I need only sit outside on my balcony.

In these moments, I feel welcomed by the little leaves waving a greeting with the slight breeze and understood by the soft trickling of water reminding me to breathe.

And I can't help but smile as the black squirrel runs down the tree to grab the small apple I threw out there, before the deer can get it.

It's just a rally or two away. I'm feeling sure that's also why the Trump campaign wants him muted during the debate.

@stueytheround @Ironworker229 @rpardee

@rpardee I understand where your worries are coming from. I think Harris will be the grown-up in the room. He'll be muted while she speaks, but he won't be able to stop the intrusive thoughts that burst through his lips when he has the chance to talk.

She will appear very controlled and professional in comparison.

Dems will laud her ability to make a succinct point. MAGA will complain she is too uppity and a bitch.

Can't say I'm looking forward to the after debate when MAGA switches their commentary from Kamala Harris: being dumb and sleeping her way to the top to.. Kamala Harris: angry Black woman.. when she refuses to let Trump, cut her off, bully her, or intimidate her by standing too close in that super creepy way of his.

But I do want her to take him down!

#politics
#trump
#harris

@Ms420 I do the deep breaths, but I also find something with an interesting shape in the room (or outside) and trace it with my eyes over and over. If it is too easy a shape, you'll go to fast, but if you think something like a Kandinsky painting or 3D outline of a chair or the leaves of a plant or picture on a calendar.. it will take some effort to control the tracing and not veer off into a spiral.

@th3j35t3r He's rattled and I am loving every minute of it.

Chapelle de L'ange au Violon (Chapel of the Angel with Violin) in Congues-sur-Orbiel, France.
Photography by Quentin Chabrot.

#Photography

@Y2cake I'm feeling so much better, thank you! 🤗