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June 04, 2007
When gadgets and the info they bring us are too much
It pays to read down through the comments to a web article, because the collaborative impulse creates a more complete, more complex and, though this is subjective, more interesting work than the original. This occurs whether the correspondents agree or not.
I found an evocative bit just now that I wanted to point out, and maybe simply because I resonate to it:
I find the “boredom” of doing some kind of simple labor, like cleaning the patio with a pressure washer or cutting down over-large weeds with a swingblade or sawing up deadfall or low-hanging branches remarkably refreshing. Part of it is the narrowed focus to the next sweep of wand or whack of pokeberry bush or approach to a heavy limb, and part of it is the immediate connection of cause and effect. You notice more about the immediate environment and find there is more to notice....I don’t even listen to iPod or Walkman much when doing this kind of thing, because the sounds, from bird calls to Jake brakes, are a part of the environment.-- Hudge
Found at the Rexblog, thanks to a link from AC
I was whacking my way through some pokeweed, and boxwood, and hackberry, and poison ivy just yesterday. I had purchased a swingblade (they must be called something else here, because I get looks from people like I'm Billy Bob Thornton in that movie — Slingblade, that is — when I mention it) the day before, and I only had about an hour to get outside and use it, but I made sure to take the time. Therapy ensued.
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