November 21, 2011
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The Daily News1 Threw all digital things away this weekend and concentrated on people.
2 Liberating.
3 I got somewhere that couldn't handle the internet, or cell phones, or computers, or anything else that keeps us in touch with all the madness.
4 What a lovely thing.
5 I realized that we actually have people in our lives who are meaningful, intelligent, funny, and real.
6 Nothing like a trip to the mountains to put things in their proper perspective.
7 And the best part is that I don't care about all the madness that has swirled around me for the past three months.
8 Not important.
9 Lesson plans can wait.
10 I do not owe my soul to the company stoe.
11 It was awesome to drop off the face of the Earth for two days and on return not really worry about the manufactured tragedies that the digital world wants us to worry about.
12 I refuse to even share what I did, except to say that I threw everything out the window for a couple of days, stopped the world, got off and strolled around for a bit, took a look at the madness back on this little blue marble we call a planet, and decided that there are more important things.
13 We all KNOW this, but somehow we let this daily boushit interfere with real life, which is much richer than the manufactured crap they throw at us incessantly.
14 I'm turning the corner on all that stuff.
15 As much as I love teaching, every now and again it needs to get into the back sit and cool its jets. I didn't realize how much it was barking and begging at me. Sorry dude, but you aren't the most important thing in life.
16 It's a wonderful life, and there's too much else.
17 And sorry Facebook, Internet, Fake news, oil companies, advertisers, causes, and everything else that comes at me on a daily basis: you aren't as important. You just aren't.
18 Laughter, people, family, mountains, stars, and perspective have moved to the front lines. Two days sans digital can do that to a person.
19 The madness has stopped, because I'm stopping it. Nothing more.
20 No specifics.
21 I just decided to shove the new world aside this past weekend, and in the coming weeks.
22 I found that it's a manipulative bully, and not worth my time.
23 Hard to discuss without specifics, but I think I'm completely right.
24 There's something nice about the spirit of Thanksgiving.
25 I'll be at Dad's Thursday, when the Niners clinch. I'll be with family once again, and with all due respect, probably without digitals or computers, or all that ridiculous shuck-and-jive madness that tries to control us every day.
26 It was pretty nice simply to unplug.
27 And to realize what's important. I didn't touch a school thing from Saturday 'til now.
28 Guess what?
29 They all survived without me.
30 I intend to do more of this.
31 With all due respect.
32 I hope you have a great Monday, and that you swim madly to Thursday, and then pull yourself up on some sort of island that doesn't get digital.
33 It was lovely. I intend to do more.
34 Loved it.
35 Peace.
~H~
