20191223 SAVERS for MONDAY

SILENCE

Tried to silence my thoughts for 70 seconds

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
5. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
6. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
7. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
8. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
9. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
10. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.

Also, said aloud for 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 1/31/20

Today I weighed in at 188.4; yesterday was 187.6.  GRRRRRRRRR.  I know, I know, it's the orange chicken over rice, 2 helpings.

EXERCISE

Did my full Base 70 routine for Monday 12/23/2019:

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 3 70-second sets
6. push-ups 70

(yay!  I might not be losing weight at the moment, but at least I'm still a "slave" to some good exercise habits.)

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He asks how did Sapiens organize themselves into massive cooperation networks?  After all, there was a gap between the biological capacity of the human brain, and the extensive need for managing data.

He says that the only way Sapiens could have "bridged the gap" between the capacity of the human brain, and the need to track, record and retrieve pertinent data, was to IMAGINE ORDERS and to DEVISE SCRIPTS.

These were initially created by the haves; the have nots became victims of the imaginations and devisings of the haves.

So now Harari has prepped himself to discuss class distinction, and he immediately attacks American "equality" as not being fair at all, however much the founders believed that all men (not women or negroes) were created equal.

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I spent the last two days binge-watching some TV series ("The Crown" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"), which filled the time between the last "D-DAY Promise" and the one coming up this week.

But it has colored my thinking and writing.  Two distinct cultures are described:  The evolution of the British one (largely in the 20th century under Elizabeth II), and the painful Jewish comedy of New York in the 50s and 60s.

I've adopted some of the understanding therein.