Well, this really reads as if she never even plugged in— > If the weather is good, a run is in order. I feel energized and invigorated and ready to face the day. I usually run for about 25 minutes. I go about two and a half miles, around 10:…
> It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. —Horace I recorded this saying in 2009. It holds its freshness for me across five years, and it's stranger still to think that it was written for a time without computers, iPads, iPods, and cell phones.…
> #SFGiantsFans [https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFGiantsFans?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/kEUqs36jhV [http://t.co/kEUqs36jhV] — City Lights Books (@CityLightsBooks) October 27, 2014 [https://twitter.com/CityLightsBooks/status/526778051581837312]…
John Cassidy describes his idyllic summer break at The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/taking-news?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=tumblr&mbid=social_tumblr] > On the way back down to the city, we stopped off at the vacation rental of…
> Sign of the (absurd) times: UK park urges visitors to dump smartphones in "tech creches" to enjoy Nature undistracted http://t.co/CAtKqe3uXu — carlhonore (@carlhonore) July 23, 2014 [https://twitter.com/carlhonore/statuses/491957841004331008]…
> “Email is a constant: Why I turned off email notifications” by @mg [https://twitter.com/mg] https://t.co/VW1hgEHpxJ — Medium (@Medium) July 18, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Medium/statuses/490257961042718720]…
There's really a shock in this story from NPR [http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/03/328137640/surrounded-by-digital-distractions-we-cant-even-stop-to-think?ft=1&f=102920358] titled "Surrounded by Digital Distractions, We Can't Even Stop to Think"— > Stripped of their books, cellphones and other…
A marketing message to be sure, but a wonderful way to remind of the pleasures of slowing down, handwriting (and letterpress), and mindfulness.…