That empty square
Emerging from a black hole just when you thought it was never possible, I've got a few good months under my belt to b(ack)log. This is a nod to all you people who have commented that my one single solitary Feb posting has been looking quite bare.
Has anyone ever tried desperately to downsize on the technological maintenance in their lives, esp. those hikes up email mountain? If you belong to an elite club who have thrown out their blackberrys, done away with their palms, switched off their mobiles and stood up for eigenzeit, my hat off to your deceleration. Sure, the biggest deadline of all is death. But I don't need to be switched on duty to the world 24/7, or ruled by the cult of speed.
So this sabbatical, this black hole of mine. It's the thing that enables the other things on your mind to be creatively rearranged, like the empty square in the 4 x 4 puzzle that makes it possible to move the other 15 peices around.
Fortunately, disappearing to another continent is the best excuse ever.
I highly recommend it.
Has anyone ever tried desperately to downsize on the technological maintenance in their lives, esp. those hikes up email mountain? If you belong to an elite club who have thrown out their blackberrys, done away with their palms, switched off their mobiles and stood up for eigenzeit, my hat off to your deceleration. Sure, the biggest deadline of all is death. But I don't need to be switched on duty to the world 24/7, or ruled by the cult of speed.
So this sabbatical, this black hole of mine. It's the thing that enables the other things on your mind to be creatively rearranged, like the empty square in the 4 x 4 puzzle that makes it possible to move the other 15 peices around.
Fortunately, disappearing to another continent is the best excuse ever.
I highly recommend it.
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