It's been a bit of stressful week for me but I was happy to resolve things I needed to do. I decided to take a break and go get some coffee and food. It always helps me unwind a bit. Seems to always do the trick! It did this time too!
I started working on this piece for Elf where I wanted to look back in time at the start of the digital revolution, beginning with the computer. I read more about Ada Lovelace who I had heard about but did not really know much about. I quickly realized to my surprise, that I am a lot like her. If you don't know the name, Ada Lovelace was an English woman who worked with Charles Babbage, considered the father of the computer. Babbage built a Difference Machine and an Analytical Engine to make simple mathematical computations for general purposes. Ada expanded on this concept, envisioning a machine that could do more complex math such as algorithms. She imagined and described in detail a machine that could not only do specific preset tasks, but also perform a new programmable array of tasks that could constantly be changed.
Ada took the concept even further, explaining that anything that could be represented via symbols - such as words and music - could also be programmed in this machine.
She was able to see a bigger picture for Babbage's machine and wrote the first 'code' for it. She helped connect the dots - the essence of creativity. Ada envisioned the idea for the modern computer, a machine that would be built 100 years later. It was only in the 1950s that her contribution was even acknowledged and she was credited as the world's first 'programmer.'
There are quite a few similarities that we share, even right down to some writing that I saw today.
That made me think, What am I doing? What's holding me back?
+ I live in a better time, don't I? Don't I?
+ I finally have good sense when it comes to companionship. I have good boundaries in place.
+ I have always had the most wonderful, beautiful, big-hearted, discerning and brilliant mother! ❤️❤️❤️
+ I feel freer and happier than I have during my entire adult life and more like the woman I intended to be!
So what will I achieve now? It can't just be "I will do this." It needs to be in process or DONE.
It's time. ⚡️