Dear Reader,
To the Bat Cave, Robin, I must write! Because, you were always on my mind. Sometimes, I ask myself: what goes here? In fact, it might be my most asked question of myself. What an awkward sentence!
A week or so ago, I led a little group in a meditative drawing exercise, and I felt so clearly the wave of concentration and, hmm, what is the thing? Not just concentration, not just intention, not just care, but maybe, maybe it was love. It was ecstatic like that, so it might have been. A little field guide would be handy here, wouldn't it? With a cross-reference of 'feels like' and then a page with what it is you might be experiencing?
On the topic of my writing you, I think you should know that I never use auot correct when I write you here, be cause it would be less true for my hurrying, let alone what denigration partnering with a machine might feel like when you are reading. This is funny, of course, but also, my true feelings on the matter. I think we get some out of whatever we put in.
Which leads me to two things: this digital tool is not a threat to anyone, or any notion of quality or honesty. If you don't want to use your thumb to scumble out 't h a n k y o u' on your device, I still believe you meant it. And if writing is a chore, or even tortuous for you, I give you permission, utterly and completely, to use as much AI as you you like. I won't even complain that it tastes like canned. It's all Gide* anyway.
Second thing, is that I have some old blue ink on lined paper writing of mine, and I love to note things like this: BE cause. Now, that doesn't look like it is; I used (and still do use, but less) a weird (& expedient) mix of capitals, lower case, and cursive in my penned writing. If, as a human, it is possible to lift our self loathing even a tiny bit, I would do so, in order to tell myself how sweet and charming a mistake BE cause is.
PS
*Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
