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To ChatGPT:

Review this in the light of our Dapa 'Four Days' https://kaystoner.substack.com/p/2026-from-feelings-to-function -- https://dapaday.blogspot.com/2024/12/discernment-december-30th.html -- https://dapaday.blogspot.com/2024/12/absolution-december-31st.html -- https://dapaday.blogspot.com/2024/12/promise-january-1st.html -- https://dapaday.blogspot.com/2024/12/alignment-january-2nd-dapa-day.html

Bob, Kay’s “2026: From Feelings to Function” is basically a perfect companion piece to the Dapa Four Days arc, because she’s arguing that care/trust/mutuality/love should be treated as behaviors and commitments (causes) rather than emotional states (effects). kaystoner.substack.com

How it snaps onto the Four Days

Day 1 - Discernment (Dec 30): “See clearly.”
Discernment is framed as reflection + pattern-finding + orienting to higher principles/rights. dapaday.blogspot.com
Kay’s “we’ve been conditioned to judge situations by how they feel” is the same diagnostic move: notice the pattern, then decide to re-anchor on sturdier principles than mood. kaystoner.substack.com
Bridge: Discernment identifies where “feelings-first” thinking has been steering the ship.

Day 2 - Absolution (Dec 31): “Clear the interference.”
Absolution is explicitly about releasing burdens, regrets, resentments, guilt—so you can re-align without dragging old noise forward. dapaday.blogspot.com
Kay says these pillars “can’t rest on… unresolved emotional baggage.” That’s essentially Day 2 in one sentence. kaystoner.substack.com
Bridge: Absolution removes the emotional debt that makes “care” collapse into performative sentiment or reactive defensiveness.

Day 3 - Promise (Jan 1): “Commit.” (today, Jan 1, 2026)
Promise is “setting intentions for renewal and alignment,” and explicitly ties intention-setting to core rights and actionable steps. dapaday.blogspot.com
Kay’s post is already a Promise document: she lists the principles she’s committing to, then says she’s going to start speaking and acting on them publicly, with “less talk, more action.” kaystoner.substack.com+1
Bridge: Promise becomes “functional vocabulary”: define what care/trust/etc look like in actions, not vibes.

Day 4 - Alignment (Jan 2 / Dapa Day): “Do it, consistently.”
Alignment is the step where intentions become lived behavior, with accountability and an action plan. dapaday.blogspot.com
Kay’s “cause, not effect” framing fits Alignment cleanly: you do the causal behaviors, and the feelings may follow. kaystoner.substack.com+1
Bridge: Alignment is where “functional care” becomes repeatable practice.

One important tension to handle (and Dapa helps)

Kay leans into “give first… sometimes until it hurts.” kaystoner.substack.com
That can be noble, but it can also turn into boundary failure or martyr scripts. Dapa’s core-rights framing (existence/autonomy/flourishing/reflection) gives you a governor: care that destroys the carer is not aligned—it violates “existence/flourishing/autonomy” in the very act of trying to love. dapaday.blogspot.com+1

Practical “Dapa x Function” translation (tight)

  • Discernment: Where did I substitute “it feels right” for “it is right / it is fair”? kaystoner.substack.com+1

  • Absolution: What resentment/shame is making me fake-care or demand reciprocity? dapaday.blogspot.com+1

  • Promise (today): Write 2–3 behavioral definitions (observable) for care/trust/mutuality/love. dapaday.blogspot.com+1

  • Alignment (tomorrow): Pick one action per definition and schedule it; keep score weekly (did I do the behaviors?). dapaday.blogspot.com

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