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notes from the stump

balance

1/27/2019

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Usually when I wake up I get dressed and grab my phone just before going downstairs. I slip it into my pocket unread but then start to check in as I make coffee, lay a fire, open the curtains. But not this morning. This morning I left my phone upstairs.

I did all those other things in a remarkable quiet frame of mind.

Now I usually hate when people get all philosophical about technology use. Especially when it is the technology and their use of it that allowed their success. And I am keenly aware that I lean on technology and my phone for community, interaction, validation, marketing, engagement, posturing and flag waving. It brings a lot of good into my day and it allows me to earn a living doing what I love working for myself. And for that I am grateful.

But this morning, as I sat near the open woodstove door, the fire just starting to crackle on the hearth and dawn creeping slowly down the windowpanes, I was reminded that while social media and connection can invigorate and excite, challenge and inspire, it cannot lead me to that quiet place in my head where I feel calm and centered and ENOUGH. How could it? It lives and breaths more, more, more.

This morning was an exercise in less, and the balance that can bring to everything that follows.

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Damian Ainscough
1/30/2019 09:35:59 am

So true. It's so refreshing to do this and be what we used to be. And have unanswered questions, at least for a while. And not be in awe of someone else. And not share your own life. Have you read Erling Kagge's 'Silence: In the Age of Noise'? Damian

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