Notes To Self

Making the grand, sweeping assumption that I, you know, have one.

Note #1

Based mostly on self-observance, research into a relationship between twilight blues & difficulty in waking/ early morning waking as a function of temperature & wind changes and histamine level responses during sunrise and sunset might be warranted. Surely someone else has already investigated this?

Further noted that elderly folk and the mentally ill in high-care establishment exhibit exaggerated responses to these changes in light. Ancestral echo, or something a little more biological, perhaps?

Note #2

Requirement for models of systems that value relationships between items, rather than attributing an intrinsic value to the items themselves. Requirement arises not so much because application is required, rather I'd like to know how the approaches work (presuming, of course that there are some, beyond weighted network analyses).

Note #3

 Necessity is the mother of invention. I'm an avid, addicted runner. In avidly, addictedly running around the local streets, I've twice now run into a young (from all appearances) Muslim lady, also out for her evening run, with a headscarf made, from all appearances, out of the same lycra material as her leggings. Who says tradition is inflexible and regressive? 

Note #4

Speaking of regressive, so here's me, proclaiming that there might be something in this Christian monastic life thing, if we could hold back the cultural reactivity just long enough to have a look at the territory, the benefits of it. And here's a terribly generalised, but not so uncommon response: 'You're Christian? Oh. So, you must be regressive, right-wing, conservative AND fundamentalist, right?' (add askance eyebrow and a curled upper lip). It seems it's cool to want to integrate the teachings of Buddhist monasticism into life-as-we-live-it, but Christ-centered convent life? Who'd want that? 

So the note to self is to work on marketing techniques. An attempt to live the values of charity, humility, discernment and reconciliation with the Divine through reverence to others just doesn't, quite frankly, cut the mustard over and above deep seated cultural cynicism.

Maybe the deeper question is why do I want anyone else to think that the idea is attractive? Hmm.