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I've already been awake a while, though I feel I slept quite deeply while doing so.
Fels like there will be more spoons today and the brain is thinking okay.
I've been chasing a metabolic shift over the past week and think I know why that's shifted the way it has, though it's never fun having to knock down high blood sugars. OTOH, the ridiculous post meal blood sugars could be a very good sign of something going on.
But still way too early to count chickens and make conclusions.
For many reasons, this week has been especially unpleasant for me; I'd like to recover some of the feeling of living in a universe that's capable of ✨Beauty✨ (the capital/emojis aren't necessary, but they help).
If you have a moment, please respond with your favorite X that gives you what you judge to be an analogous feeling, and an explanation of what's cool about it.
Suggestions that have worked for me before:
beautiful theorems, proofs, or visualizations/intuitions;
neuro-spicy special interests;
scientific discoveries (all fields: fundamental physics to animal behavior);
clever puzzle solutions;
a historical event that's happy for more than just bigots;
a difficult to translate word or phrase and some of the best ways it can be used;
an unusual grammatical feature of some language you know (of) or culture you're a part of that just makes sense.
Things you just think are neat and what you like about them.
Thanks to the people who responded plus a little searching through this bot's posts ( https://mastodon.social/@trendytoots ) I have extended the list. Please feel free to respond with any more you know and can comfortably share, maybe with a description of what it's for, and a suggestion for what to call this kind of practice (or maybe it has an official name?). I'd really love to see examples from a broader variety of languages!
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