{"id":20104,"date":"2026-01-27T00:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20104"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:30:53","slug":"journal-of-the-week-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20104","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>01\/27\/2026 Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learned a little something about<strong> Chinese art: \u6c5f\u5357\u6625\uff0c\u4ec7\u82f1\u756b<\/strong>. Interesting also how folks are using AI to turn China paintings into animations, and how some Chinese appreciating Western Museums preserving China culture better than the Chinese government:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mystery of One of China&#039;s Greatest Paintings....\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1M7RLrXXBWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>01\/26\/2026 Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning I woke up from a <strong>strange dream<\/strong>. I think I was at church, <strong>trying to evangelize to a boy<\/strong> (looks like Latino, in his late teens) who said he turned away from the faith because of Soren <strong>Kierkegaard's idea of what is \"drawn.\"<\/strong> I had no clue what he was talking about, and before I could get clarity, I woke up, forgetting of what else he said which still didn't make any sense to me in the dream. But by googling, the AI gives me this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard used the metaphor of an \"<strong>arrow of grief<\/strong>\" embedded in his heart to describe his ironic, melancholic existence, noting that <strong>if it were \"drawn out,\"<\/strong> he would <strong>die.<\/strong> Additionally, he believed individuals are <strong>constantly pulled between the opposing forces<\/strong> of the \"<strong>finite<\/strong>\" (immediate reality) and the \"<strong>infinite<\/strong>\" (possibility and eternity).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He described how one is <strong>drawn through three spheres<\/strong> of existence: the <strong>aesthetic <\/strong>(pleasure-seeking), the <strong>ethical <\/strong>(duty-bound), and the <strong>religious <\/strong>(faith-based).&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not sure what the dream was really about, but I would see it as a reminder to pounder upon these works of Kierkegaard, such as: <em>The Concept of Irony, Either\/Or, The Sickness Unto Death, At a Graveside (from Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The snow storm<\/strong> from yesterday really had everyone shoveling crazy today. It's been probably 5+ years since we had to deal with such snow. I would guess it's about 14 inches high. And given this week's temperature forecast (lower than 30F) we may have to deal with eventual hardened snow ice (melt-freeze crust to solid ice) for a lengthy time. Because it's a snow day, business was slow. After helping me with the snow, Nadia decided that we go eat at our favorite cheap China Buffet, where she could also shop at Goodwill next door as I checked out Harbor Freight which is next to Goodwill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/27\/2026 Tuesday Learned a little something about Chinese art: \u6c5f\u5357\u6625\uff0c\u4ec7\u82f1\u756b. Interesting also how folks are using AI to turn China paintings into animations, and how some Chinese appreciating Western Museums preserving China culture better than the Chinese government: 01\/26\/2026 Monday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-dreams","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20111,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}