Giving up screen time when I am teaching and taking an
online course? Impossible. I often
think about how I would spend hours on the phone at school before email and
coordinate meeting times for a dozen or more people. Now, this process takes less than five minutes. What a time saver!
I admit that I rely on the computer for my writing as
well. It isn’t that I have given
up writing in a journal completely, but again the computer is faster and
perhaps can keep up with my quirky, ever-changing thoughts that dart here and
there when I am in the writing mode.
I am also happy to report that I can go at least a week
without a computer. I have never had an opportunity to experience being
“wire-less or unconnected” for a longer period of time. I read. I wrote. I sewed. I opened my sketchbook and created. I went for walks and I swam. Fires were built, dishes were washed
and meals were prepared. Cell phone coverage is non-existent at camp. The temptation to see if I received any
e-mails or comments on my Facebook post did not gnaw at me. It was simply an impossibility.
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