Not Social--an experiment in real life

For the next year I will be reclaiming a life I remember.If I can live here I can live anywhere.Since I started my business four years ago I've grown increasingly comfortable with technology, which is a good thing...mostly.  I see the beauty in the web work, the intricacy of possibilities.  And I see the vast distraction, the movement away from a life my children have never known:where we didn't carry our phones with us everywherewhere the phone was simply a phone, not a computer full of news, games, social status and photoswhere we had to send the film away (!) and there were no filterswhere letters arrived, tactile and handwrittenwhere work ended sometime and began sometimewhere responses could take thought, pauses, days and breathI realize this sounds fuzzily nostalgic.  And isn't that what we've chosen to believe?  That the life of the screen is more valuable than life lived?Yes.No.I see signs of a pendulum swing.  I feel it in my soul and heart.  So here is the intention:limitationsMore time in real life than on the screen. A seed, sprouting, hopeful.  Into more connection, more gardens, more art, more conversations.Beginning...where
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Published on August 02, 2016 18:11
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