The Happy Quitter! Posts
We celebrated Luna’s 5-month birthday this weekend. She is a big girl now (mostly).
Free subway travel for the elderly in South Korea – paper-and-digital hybrid textbooks as a standard format in Japan -Climate education in Africa – The Great Wall Museum in China – Elderly care in Asia: the world doesn’t stand still.
…but many feel emptiness instead.
An AI agent can book my flight and order lunch. AI just solved my return at a department store. I can lean back and ask myself: Why doesn’t this feel like liberation, but emptiness?
My mother told me a lot about the past, of the Dark Days with technology and the internet. She talked about the Third World War, which hardly anyone had survived. “Before the war, people only let their machines and technology think for them instead of using their brains themselves,” my mother used to say.
It’s very entertaining to dig up the oddity stories from around the world every Friday.
We can learn from watching babies, toddlers, and yes, even teenagers. I wondered if I am the only one who looks at it that way. Does not being a parent make me more of a pushover or perhaps more observant?
Our puppy Luna got comfortable in the big dog bed. It’s Vader’s favorite place, but he hesitated at first, which is understandable. Puppies are hyper; they ignore boundaries and can be unpredictable. He looked at her for a while, then decided it was worth a try. He lay down beside her. Luna, still wearing her house leash, opened her eyes, but didn’t move. A short while later, they rested together for the first time.
Luna is growing up.