13: Do Doodle
1. I came across THIS artist in an old People Magazine: Sam Cox, known professionally as Mr. Doodle, who spent the past two years covering every inch of his 1.5-million$ home in drawings.
2. In the BBC interview, Cox said doodling is “almost like an out-of-body experience. You’re just indulging yourself in this free-flowing state of creation.”
3. Yes, I’m a doodler. I also like noodles by the oodles.
4. I tried to play the word suey during a recent Scrabble game but, apparently, according to the Scrabble dictionary, “suey” isn’t a word unless it’s preceded by the word “chop.”
5. Recent research suggests that doodling (spontaneous drawing) and fidgeting (spontaneous body movement) might actually help us to maintain focus and/or reduce stress that interferes with focus, which is why I always take my highlight pens to meetings.
6. My favorite doodle poem is HERE.
7. A friend recently posted a haiku poem about sleep. The poem wasn’t so bad even though it wasn’t a haiku and it was created by AI.
8. A Massachusetts Congressman recently delivered a believable speech on the House floor using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbox tool. He later explained that he wanted to highlight what was coming and promote discussion on purposeful policy so we wouldn’t be caught off guard, like we were with social media.
9. Poetry is a dousing tool for depth psychology.
10. When Google and Doodle Converge: I typed a poem’s line / and changed it three times / then printed out a page / to mark my best aim / to mix the ink of last and first / to merge synapses of right and left / to draw conclusions / and liberate free verse / back to the drawing board / where poets work.
11. “We’re only as sick as our secrets. The Buddha said three things cannot be hidden for long: the sun, the moon, and the truth. In other words: the truth always comes out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always come out in healthy ways. Often, it comes out, not as words, but as illness. Repressed anger can come out as cancer. Repressed hurt can come out as addiction. But the truth is always “shining through,” asking to be known.” – Paul Weinfield
12. “I’m not dead yet, but I plan to be.” My friend Karl at a recent Death Café gathering.
13. And someone at the Death Cafe read Mary Oliver’s When Death Comes …like the hungry bear in autumn; / when death comes and takes all the bright coins / from his purse / to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; / when death comes / like the measle-pox… When it’s over, I want to say all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. / I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms…
_____________Thirteen Thursday
February 2nd, 2023 2:15 pm
I have had several conversations with ChatGPT just to see what it comes up with. It’s rather scary, actually.
February 3rd, 2023 12:48 am
AI/ChatGPT – good? bad? ugly? Really not sure.. At this time, I am just going to continue enjoying reading blogs I know and love, and writing for my own!!
And your doodles are cool!! And loved ‘When Google and Doodle Converge’,; reading it, I felt the sentiments in these lines where you say ‘I was looking for a new poem/and found the unexpected’!!