Starting and ending your days offline

Once you decide, having it is easy

Borrow A Child

Hi there,

Thanks to time spent offline, going to sleep and waking up are the two best parts of my days. And once you get that figured out, the in-between is a piece of cake.

Five things to share:

1. In the beginning, there is silence— If you let it be so.

   There is also the noise, just as readily available: With a tap, a click, a scroll. This is a very recent development in the history of human civilization, to wake up with the whole world in your bed. Back then, I used to choose the noise too: Wake up to the news, the tweets, the notifications, the avatars. And they would all tell me, they would all say first thing in the morning, what was wrong with the world, with me, with the day to come. Such noise dampens the spirit, weighs you down first thing in the morning; holds you hostage to the mattress, to the phone. You scroll more to escape the terror of waking up to all that is wrong with you, with the world, with the day to come.

   There is also silence just as readily available if you let it be so: Quiet, calm, peaceful mornings spent offline.

2. Once you have managed a good morning, and a wonderful day filled with ordinary delights, it becomes far easier to manage an unplugged evening. The desire to escape the terror of the day lessens with each passing day spent in the calm, quiet mornings pouring over your journal seeking truth; late afternoons spent noticing birds flying freely, children playing delightfully. It is far easier to manage an unplugged evening knowing tomorrow, when the day comes, it will bring with it another chance to play with truth in the quiet, calm, peaceful morning; another chance to notice love unfolding, trees swaying to the sound of the wind, time spent in good company laughing, knowing.

   In: Unplugged Evenings

3. The French say, "Pour vivre contente, vivons caches."

   (Translated: To live happily, live hidden.)

   ♡

4. https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/linchpin-are-you-indispensable/9781591844099.html

   

   Where did your art go?????

5. A challenge for you: Start and end your days offline.

That’s all for this week!

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Until next time,

Mehret