↑ [[2023-01]] ← [[2023-W01]] ## Projects ### Design Played with Affinity suite as way of creating analog concepts with digital tools. Some gotchas in the set-up, like transparent artboards, and I think I need to set up a custom brush palette that meets my requirements, as well as make default slice mode pdf export. #planning ### The Sequences Started [[Mysterious Answers Overview|overview]] for Mysterious Answers section but much of the content is spilling into a **What is Rationality note**. Want to devote a whole workday to finishing and reorganizing notes from this project. ### Fitness Goals Hit previous baseline fitness goals and created [[Fitness Goals| new ones]]. Also began tracking blood pressure and heart rate after each workout (hr is still elevated) in inline fields on DNP. Trying to understand the importance of [[Vital Signs]] along with keeping tabs on my own [[Fitness Metrics]]. Loose monthly project is to create a fitness regime that meets my situation, and is portable to settings where I do not have the facilities offered by the gym. These are being managed in Reminders but recorded in Dolores. ### Networking Had lunch with Justin Durango. Good chap, will likely bring some value into the Work. ## Topics ### Complex Adaptive Systems Reading about [[Complex Adaptive Systems]] in morning reading session. Not spending a lot of time taking notes but capturing my own thoughts over the course of the day as they arise. I think this is an important framework to understand in the course of communicating with clients and the public about landscapes and my worldview. ### Mind Enjoyed [this](http://wondermark.com/c1444) comic.  ### Spirit Ran into the Mary Oliver poem [[How I Go Into the Woods]] that struck a nerve, very much in the sense that inviting someone into the forest with me is an expression of love. ### Digital Literacy Learned that `git` stands for Global Information Tracking. ### reFi [Commonland](https://www.commonland.com) is a Dutch organizational consultant that operates on the principles of **Inspiration, Social Capital, Natural Capital, Financial Capital** as returns for prioritizing ecological design. ## Reflections #### 2023-01-11 **Prompt (if any):** Watched this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ByH9Mq_JuKQ) on the Venus synodic cycle. Feeling good about slowly getting back into the flow of life and work after an almost month-long interruption. Noticing a gentleness with which I'm approaching daily obligations and setting aside expectations that either don't belong to me, or are imaginary. Interesting detour on the Venus synodic cycle this evening. Video itself was not great but did introduce me to **the interesting mathematics behind Venus' orbit and how that might inform its representation as the planet of [[Beauty]]** (symmetry???). #### 2023-01-12 **Early evening about an hour after sunset.** There is pork in the oven slowly becoming carnitas. I am hungry and beginning to notice myself reaching back towards bad habits that sate the [[anger in an emotional ecology|anger]] but don't offer any substance to my life: checking on Her, watching bad tv, etc. Attempting to read seems to strengthen the hunger. **This time of day, usually as the sun wanes, possibly humid and grey, invites a certain desire for mindlessness. Is this the hour to reflect? When thoughts are not subject to creative criticism and can simply be expressed in their imperfectness?** An interesting proposal. ## Astrology - **2023-01-11:** Moon trine Uranus, Saturn trine [[nPluto]], Saturn sextile [[nNeptune]] - **2023-01-12:** Mars stations direct - **2023-01-13:** Sun sextile Neptune, Sun square [[nPluto]]