Notice & Nourish

Hello Fellow Creative -

This week’s Sunday stack is short and sweet, and builds on our last episode.

Here we talk about algorithms versus relationships, likes versus support, and tech in comparison to Nature, who loves you.

Did you know that trees emit a low-key, near infrared light, that they don’t use?

I recently learned that blue light, like that editing from our screens and computers is unfiltered and gets ushered right into our retina. I never thought about that before. I did use to explain to students that reading or even listening to something can you the speed to decide if it sounded true, whereas imagery, flashes and gets into our system and if we are paying attention, we then question it.

The very nature of consciousness seems to becoming more mainstream in ever-growing circles. When I asked the Internet (I am citing my sources here) about thinking of something and then seeing its ads, it answered very cleverly. It said :

So what about those times when you just think about something, and then you see an ad?

It can be difficult to wrap your head around, but it likely is less of a coincidence than you think. Any piece of information Facebook picked up (even just semi-related to the thought), either before or after your thought, could have led to the ad being served.

Every move you make online fuels Facebook’s algorithm. Engaging with a post, liking a person’s photo, or even using your Facebook account to sign in to another online service are all examples of this.

Essentially, a complex algorithm is “listening” to us, just not using microphones.

• www.mcnuttpartners.com/why-we-see-digital-ads-after-talking-about-something/January 25, 2021 Digital Marketing / Marketing and Advertising

Not sure that makes me feel better; it’s kinda like a pat on the head, saying it’s way worse than you can consider. In the same breath, there is a mockery of the Quantum Physics and the idea that where our focus goes, energy grows - meaning like often attracts like and such. Okay maybe not enough to explain much, but that is not the goal here. The goal is to question and consider. I’d toss in the idea of when you find out a shop, or a trail, had been in your neighborhood and you never, ever noticed it before. What changed that made the opportunity available to your perception?

To note, I don’t think the universe is random, nor do I think it is for humans to control. I do think a bit of personal effort to build one’s life, can go a very long way. A way, indeed that can be upturned, but built again, perhaps even with a new found wisdom. What we say and how we say it matters. I am beginning to learn it may even matter more than I’d wish.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

This week’s focus is Notice & Nourish. Enjoy the invitation and maybe notice what you notice as you go about your days. I am still enjoying my bounty from the harvest.

See you back here next week on Tend the Flame

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