Slow Sunday, thoughts on AI, help needed

Butternut hummus, roasted veggies and kefir cheese

From my heart to yours, not AI generated.

I just thought I would say that, because someone asked me this week if I was using AI to create my Ayurvedic mini eBook series. So, for anyone out there wondering, I do my own writing, and although AI could probably do it as well or better, it wouldn’t be coming from my heart to yours.

To be honest, it is why I haven’t been writing much this year, I’ve been wondering if there is any point when anyone can just type a few commands into chatGPT and get whatever their mind wants from there. Perhaps you will let me know in the comments what you think, should I carry on this substack, or do you think we are moving into a world where AI will take this role of writers over? I used to love writing these substacks of warm words for weary minds, but AI has taken away my joy. Any advice will be gratefully received.

Warm words of simple things

Christmas lights still on across the road, house fronts lit up. Rain on red brick walls, garden leaves wet and shiny on the grass, rich green, soil squelches; worms sleep. Staccato tree branches, silhouettes and silver deep blue sky behind. Sun not up yet. Hushed silence meets my early morning, the day empty and still and silent.

Body breathes as the room flickers into existence, cocooning where cold early mornings used to shock into existence. Those cushions on the sofa, the colour of warm sea, slowly come into life as I sip on warm tea.

Joy Dots

Early morning stillness

Silver deep blue skies

Rain on tree branches

Silvery moon

Squelchy soil

Worms asleep

Starry sky

Smell of bonfires

Wisps of crackling flames

Dew on the doorstep

Life coming and going

Not minding

Recipe

Butternut hummus, roasted veggies and kefir cheese

This is a throw together lunch that would suit vata and pitta types. I roasted the butter nut squash with some garlic cloves and blitzed with tahini, lemon and salt. The veggies were roasted in ghee. The kefir cheese was homemade. I love making kefir cheese, it is so full of the things that our gut microbiome needs to live well, that in turn allows us to live well.

As I write those words I find my self thinking again about AI. I find myself thinking, AI could have written everything in the post quicker than I can click my fingers, so is there really any point in me doing this. I used to take such pleasure in sharing things I knew, ordinary things about life to lift up anyone who was lost in the spirals of a stressed mind. But now as I write and share I just think, well AI could do that. I’m feeling a bit redundant, and not sure what to do about that. Not sure how to bring myself to the world, or to the creative things I used to love to do. Please do share advice in the comments, I really need to hear it.

News: Ayurveda eBook mini series

A week ago I posted the first part of a short eBook I have been writing called “Ayurveda & Grief”. It is the first in this series of “Ayurveda &…” I have been saying for ages that I would start writing books again and share what I was writing as I wrote it for my paying subscribers. I shared a little of it with everyone, but next week I will share the whole thing for my paying subscribers in recorded and written form. With a little of it shared with all in case you decide you are interested in this and would like to support my writing.

This series will have about 10-15 mini eBooks, not very long, that focus on Ayurveda for different things, like grief, burnout, anxiety, depression, chronic disease, and many more AND, once a month there will be a live Ayurvedic Q&A with me, to which you can send in questions that I will answer, to the best of my ability. Think of it like a friendly group who meets up to discuss all things Ayurveda, human heart to human heart, to support you to benefit from this fantastic approach to health, that roots us firmly in nature.

And feel free to pop a note in the comments if there is a specific Ayurveda & eBook you would like me to write!

Wishing you the warmest of mid winters.

And please do offer advice in the comments about my dilemma with AI, I just don’t know whether to stop doing this substack, continue it as it is, or change what I bring.

Much love,

Lucy x