The Good Goodbye

Hi!

May has been a month of a few things coming to an end.

Lambing 2026 is officially over. The last of the cade lambs - five of them mobbing me every time I'm in the orchard - have been (mostly) weaned onto corn. Misty, my little favourite, is still on the farm. She comes when I call her, which is a major joy. One evening, towards the end of the month, I went down to the paddock just before sunset, the light was orange and midges were out in force. I just stood there watching all the sheep and lambs lying in the long grass. There's a moment in every lambing season where it shifts from being busy and full on to calm and done. I always feel the pull of letting go - of the new lambs, the routine, the daily purpose of it. I'm glad there are still a handful of lambs to look after.

There's been a moving on from the Shed too. After a rather fraught (at times) three years, a unanimous decision was made by the Directors to step back. The Shed continues under new management. I've reviewed a few of my other projects and decided to pare back in a number of places. I think it's the season for reviewing, regrouping and moving forward in new ways.

Letting go, as I know from previous experience, feels a lot like new beginnings. Something else is in the pipeline but, for now, I'm enjoying the space left behind.

I've been tinkering with Claude (I signed up for a Pro account) and have been creating Projects and automations left, right and centre. Claude links nicely with Obsidian and is helping me process new notes every day, weekly plans, other scheduled tasks and speeding things up. The possibilities are exciting and I keep waking up in the night thinking of something else that I could try. 

A lot of people think AI is going to take jobs (it turns out that people are likely to be cheaper than AI), just produces slop or infringes on copyright. It probably does all those things but that's not the full story, by a long stretch. As with everything in life, it depends how you use AI. It's helping me do magical stuff - the opportunities are endless.

Thanks for reading ...

Nicola

Sage and Siren

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