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Beautiful!

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I have recently been trying out and having fun with an AI image generating app.  It created some images today that I thought were really beautiful!  Sometimes there are things in the images that don’t come out quite right.  One thing that it still really has trouble with is faces, particularly when there are multiple faces in an image.  It also makes mistakes sometimes like giving people or animals, extra arms or legs.  Regardless of these little glitches, it is truly amazing what AI image generating apps can create.  My image prompt for the  images below was just “ the absence of stress” with nothing else specifically requested.  I was really impressed by the beautiful images it created!  The final photo below is of the app that I am using.  DeepArt-AI Image Generator doesn’t yet have many ratings but it was recommended to me by Chat AI when I asked for a recommendation for a good image generating app.  I have been really impressed!  Who needs to find stock photos or “borrow” googled

Kitchen Rainbows

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Excuse me waiter, but there is a rainbow on my breakfast sandwich.  And it is all thanks to my beautiful new hanging prism decoration that casts rainbows all over my kitchen. 🌈  😄  

Flying Cereal Bowl

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 I tried to cook a bowl of Malt O Meal hot cereal in the microwave earlier today and this is what happened.  I don’t know how I managed this, but the bowl never made it into the microwave.  It also ended up all over the front of the oven, the cabinets and the floor.  I will definitely hold onto it more carefully next time! 😧

AI Generated Images

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Wow!  I have been trying out an AI image generating app, and sometimes the images come out a bit weird but there are also others that are really beautiful and amazing!  I’m going to share some of my favorites here, not including the ones that I have already shared in other posts.

A Snowman’s Quest

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Why was the snowman digging through a bag of carrots? Because he was picking his nose. 😁  ⛄️ 🥕  #pickanoseandthenpickit

Planetary Flaw

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Seeing things such as the video below, really makes me wish that human beings could create artificial meat substitutes that tasted just as good and provided us with the same protein but would enable us to not eat actual animals.  https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1CuD_EJKft/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Listening

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 Sometimes when I want to find, within my mind, better ways of understanding or verbalizing something, all I have to do is pause, rewind my thoughts, and listen for some simplified and intuitive clarity.

Science versus Knowledge

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Science is a domain of knowledge that can only advance itself through its own prescribed and necessary process.  The fact is, though, that realities exist whether or not science has come to knowledge and understanding of them.  Therefore, the realities that we experience will hold true and shape our existence regardless of the belief or opinion of science.  People are wise to trust in the validity of their own experiences and to honor those experiences in constructing their own foundations of knowledge and belief.  I don’t distrust science.  I’m just open to trusting in knowledge and understanding that comes not only from science.

Yoga

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 Now this would make yoga really cool. 😄 If I could choose a yoga class in the best setting, this would be it! 🐖 🐑 🐴 🦃 🦙  https://www.instagram.com/reel/C04YSqPJ3_w/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Dust

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 Dust.  Why does it have to exist?  If I could go back in time to the day I chose my bedroom furniture, I would definitely choose the gray color rather than black.  I preferred the look of the black furniture but dust is so much more visible on black colored furniture and it always comes right back.  🫤

Barrel Of Monkeys

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 I was reminded of and have fond memories of these silly little plastic monkeys.  🙉 ❤️💙💛

Answers

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 I just had an insight about answers.  Sometimes answers lie outside of ourselves.  We are but one piece in stories that have a lot of other parts.  

The Absence Of Stress

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 I just had this light bulb or maybe it would be better described as a clarity moment.  What I desire in my ideal existence would be the absence of stress.  Meeting challenges doesn’t have to include stress when challenges are desired, are a product of self motivation and are self paced.  We need challenges for fulfillment and happiness but not stress.  Making choices in life to minimize stress is wise and a perfectly legitimate choice if it is what a person desires and needs.  When we operate with self motivation we find peace and happiness in our choices and we discover our purposes.  We give our best by choosing to invest in our own happiness.  Preferring an absence of stress is actually not a revelation for me.  I just hadn’t thought of trying to mentally elaborate on it before.

New Year’s Goal

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I know what my goal for the new year is and I should actually start before the new year.  I need to get rid of and donate a lot of stuff that I don’t use and don’t need to keep.  I did a thorough job of this in 2018 before we moved that summer but I need to do it again.  I always find that when time passes I am willing to let go of a lot stuff that I previously felt the need to hold onto.  With four of us living in a very modest sized home, our storage spaces are filled up!  There will only be three of us before too long but this job still needs to be done again.  A minimalist I am not, but I really do like the idea of keeping things simple.  Even my darn phone is a mess.  I guess this would be called a digital mess. 🫤 And forget about email.  I have tried to unsubscribe from lots of stuff and even once managed to get my inbox emptied but no matter what, it eventually still fills up with new emails by the thousands. 🤦‍♀️ I know that we all deal with this or ignore it and just have th

Birds and Music

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 Do birds have an appreciation for music?  I know that birds are actually very intelligent animals and I have seen other videos where larger parrot type birds seemed to actually be dancing to the sound of music.  As a human being, it is hard to imagine why to other animals, such as dogs and cats, music is just sound that has no emotional effect.  We human beings are very lucky to appreciate and have an emotional connection with music. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzUSOY-C4Xm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==