At the same time, the skills I have had to develop, and the ways I have had to transform, in order to survive the past four years have made me a wiser, kinder person. I have greater capacity and compassion. I am less dissociated, I seem to feel everything more deeply and vividly. I feel more connected to what is happening to the earth in this... See more
Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting. And, even more disturbing, scrolling narrows the field of my curiosity. I take what I find there; I don’t make... See more