I started off the week with some interesting signs being sent to me throughout the day. Bit hard to put into words, but lets just say that the universe was nudging me at the beginning of the week into a certain direction by continuously sending me signals, or, signs. And they were not just coincidental, here are some examples.

While binge-watching the silo series, it would continue to pause every 30 seconds to 1 minute - making the watching of it a task. I did not think too much about it at first, until it got so annoying that I thought I would try to time the period between pausing to see if there was some kind of pattern to it. Except, every time I went to try to time it and make sense of it, the timer would reach 5 minutes…. 10 minutes…. 15 minutes or more and not a single pause.

Every time I would stop timing, the darn thing would pause again. Again, I thought nothing too much of it. I tried internet speed test, my connection was perfectly fine.

This happened more than 10 times. Every time I would try to time it, nothing. I got to a point where I realised what was going on, and I would laugh out loud to myself in my vacant home and just make it do it for kicks… stop timing it, and then pauses… time it, no pauses…

This was not all that occurred though. When I realised this was a sign and decided I needed to get off the PC. I went to have breakfast. I have a Google HUB that displays Google Photos (yes, I know… Google…) I added to a collection years ago. And while I was eating breakfast, I would look at the photo frame and for some reason, the photos I was being shown were very specific.

I don’t just mean one or two photos, but half a dozen or so photos in no random order. These were specific photos of me and my family on the way to specific events or at specific events. Different years, different times of years. But all related to specific events to do with Falun Dafa and Shen Yun etc.

Let’s just say that all of the above got me pretty focused for the rest of the week to do my meditation, to read and to tick off all of my daily tasks. And I accomplished those tasks for the whole week which I am quite proud of. This is the reason you’ve been seeing a lot more posts from me about Falun Dafa. And if you’re been reading my weeklies, you’d have noticed I have been mentioning how much procrastinating I had been doing, and never been truly happy with the lack of tasks I accomplished for myself. Always providing some kind of excuse.

And no, I was not under the influence of magic mushrooms, DMT, LSD or anything at all for that matter. This was very much normal woken state.

World Falun Day

We went to the city for World Falun Day on Saturday, which is a Parade that marches through the city to celebrate the beginning of the Falun Dafa teachings in China. I posted about it here where I included some photos, and then I uploaded some videos of it here.

There’s also a much longer video available to watch below which shows the full parade group. I’m hidden in there somewhere!

Excuse the shaky video. It wasn’t me recording it!

If you’d like to learn more about my practice, there’s plenty of information out there. You can also reach out to me privately.

Obsidian

I made this post which talks about how I have been using Obsidian lately for my journal and how my “mycelium” network of thoughts has been developing over time and growing.

I really like the plugin for micro.blog that allows me to use a token in order to publish directly from Obsidian to my website.

Highly recommend you guys get into this as my workflow can go from just posting thoughts throughout the day into a daily entry, that links to separate notes with hashtags and so forth. I can choose to publish a specific note or just keep it private. But what’s neat with tags is that over time, on the larger graph that I display tags on, I can see my interests developing and changing over time. I can then hone in on that specific interest and see if there’s enough I have linked to and written about that interest over time, to then create a full fledged article from.

Web Tinkering

Last week I tinkered around with my PC. This week I managed to tinker around with my website. I posted about it here.

I have been pretty happy with the outcome.

I use to have the main page as just a large About Me, which I felt was just too much information and not straight to the point.

When I visit others blogs, I like to go to the main domain and see the most recent updates, to see if I have missed anything. So that’s precisely what I have gone and done with my website now.

When you go to my domain https://samuellison.com you now will see a smaller about section, and then my latest posts and replies to others. They display the markdown, as well as images and video.

There’s an icon which lets you see if it’s a reply or a post of my own. And if you click on them, you can then participate in discussion if it is my own post, and if it’s a reply, you can follow a link to the original discussion at the original posters location.

I think it’s pretty neat, what do you think?

Conclusion

I really thought I would not have much to discuss from this week, but reading back above, it looks like I was able to share with you quite a bit!

Again, I hope that you enjoyed reading and learning, and thank you for getting this far.

Now, back to ticking off my tasks!