Accepting a Digitized World
— After which I embark on a Soul Shelter sabbatical —
Thanks to my twelve-year-old son’s craving for action flicks, in
Technology vs. the Soul
At what point does being wired, linked up, zoned in, and always connected become a disservice to ourselves and the culture around us?
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Six Ways to Stretch Time
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
Here in the Pacific Northwest the tree-leaves that
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Beautiful, Soul-Affirming Untruths
Gao Zen is a 53-year-old Chinese artist who, together with his brother Qiang, keeps a headless sculpture in his studio,
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An Unforgettable Lesson in What it Means to Be Human
— The Human Element is Everything, Sheila Taught Us —
In college I had a drama instructor named Sheila Weber, who
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How Reading Can Keep Us Safe
— Distraction is as much a threat to culture as censorship —
Yesterday concluded Banned Books Week, the American Library Association’s
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In Defense of Solitude (Part Two)
— “We are each … miraculously our unique selves and mysteriously enclosed in that selfhood.” -William Deresiewicz —
In last week’s
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A Soul-Affirming Vision of the Internet
— Discerning online wheat from online chaff —
While reading the September 2009 issue of Wired magazine, I was reminded of
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In Defense of Solitude (Part One)
— “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves.” - Michel de Montaigne —
In his
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To Recharge, Unplug
It’s time for my annual computerless, e-mail-free, no-blog, no-television getaway with the family.
The “no computing” part of the plan prompts
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The Art of Looking Deeply
— What is meaningful is rarely immediate —
“We proceeded on.”
These three words pervade the famous journals of Lewis & Clark.
