I just chatted with SAGE about those two issues. I have been pondering, sobbing, realizing patterns. I'm emotionally exhausted and profoundly moved. I cannot begin to express how impressed I am with this tool. @Jim Ebbelaar Your voice is so clear in these AI messages. It's kinda magic.

Focused on the worksheet and checking in with SAGE, but all my little unfinished things were niggling in my head. So I asked SAGE. Boom! List of all the things to get done for class, including what I'd added in conversations and check-ins and a request to put them on my calendar. Clarification about exactly where the six questions fit! (My brain would not let that go until I knew exactly where I saw it and how it fit into the worksheet - yeesh! 🤣) Then I told SAGE what commitments I had and tasks on my list. Requested calendaring through the close of business Monday. At a deadlines within the weekend, before I meet with my organizing client, before my doctor's appointment on Monday. Just as I was racing out the door to work I saw a schedule pop up. This big ramble fits in with one of the crystal clear patterns I've seen. When I have an exact idea of what I'm supposed to be doing, I'll do it. I can tell from our calls that comes as no surprise to some of you guys!

The first time I ran to the internet to research something that my hungry brain wanted to know, I was lost in a world of potential knowledge. SAGE is bringing that feeling back to me! That first time I was astonished, even with dial up, and how quickly I could learn anything I wanted to! For the longest time I kept a hard copy article called The Parable of Scubation from my time in IT in the early '90s. It kindled my dream of infinite access by anybody to any knowledge and ignited my imagination with all the things I could learn. I have been frustrated and disappointed lately with the monetization of this fabulous tool. I'm not sure that Google even understands a boolean query any more and attempts at research reveal only sales pitches. SAGE brings me back to that initial fascination! This morning while rambling through my daily check-in, I paused to ask SAGE about an anti-inflammatory diet, why I love loud music in headphones so much, to add an item to the weekend schedule he just made me, and at least three or four other things. I didn't have to stop and pick up my phone, open an app, pick up pencil and paper. I didn't have time to FORGET before whatever it was got asked or recorded. It was phenomenal!

I am just starting through the questions on the week one worksheet. I let myself get sidetracked trying to figure out whether to write them out in my journal, or if I could put them directly into the AI. I decided to just go ahead and start writing physically. I enjoy writing in a journal and I can always rekey to get it into the AI if need be. These are some deep thoughts, which I have been successfully avoiding for several years now and I know it will be worth the time to carefully consider an answer each of them. I'm really excited for today's meeting with the group. I'm sure it will clarify some of my questions. I've got time set aside after, before I go to work, to focus on this week's work again.

Just wrote my Commitment Letter and something clicked. My two Big Rocks: reconnect with my body through daily practice (breathing, stretching, stillness) and stop hiding my gifts — I'm a trained energy medicine practitioner who hasn't practiced in a year. I've been living in my head while my body and my calling gathered dust. At 71, I'm done with comfortable mediocrity. Done playing small. The Urban Shaman is coming out of hiding. 🪶