Yes yes ...in many ways we have technologies that have enhanced our lives as well as potentially distracting us from the everyday experience of life. And the same with the previous lives of our ancestors - some aspects of their connection to the natural world it would be wonderful to preserve and yet other aspects are hideous and every nuance between. We are creating a mosaic of our lives from all those broken up pieces - what looks good or feels good there, maybe is ugly here...(my own ideas of ugly) We are standing on the shoulders of all that has come before - the ultimate decluttering potential ...maybe a rearrangement of most of the pieces rather than a major discard to the refuse station - a composting of the more fetid aspects to feed that which hasn't yet emerged. Thank you for your perspective ... it enlargens mine
I meet weekly with 2 groups online, one for over 2 years now and one that just had it's one year anniversary. I had never met any of the people in person before. I had the amazing and wonderful opportunity to meet a few people from the 2 year group around a year ago and we immediately fell into an amazing connection born from the year of our online connection. I love in the flesh communion and yearn for more of it in my life as I'm isolated from the kind of people in those groups - people who dig deep and share deeply. That said, I am astounded by the deep love and support and resonance I experience in my zoom meetings each week. The people and the field we create together keeps me grounded and sane. It's one of the silver linings of the Covid era that I cherish on a regular basis. So many people, ideas, organizations, teachings, etc. were so far away before the necessity of zoom, and now they are available in my home. Of all those things I value the relationships with people the most and feel immense gratitude to the technology that brings them to me.
Yes yes ...in many ways we have technologies that have enhanced our lives as well as potentially distracting us from the everyday experience of life. And the same with the previous lives of our ancestors - some aspects of their connection to the natural world it would be wonderful to preserve and yet other aspects are hideous and every nuance between. We are creating a mosaic of our lives from all those broken up pieces - what looks good or feels good there, maybe is ugly here...(my own ideas of ugly) We are standing on the shoulders of all that has come before - the ultimate decluttering potential ...maybe a rearrangement of most of the pieces rather than a major discard to the refuse station - a composting of the more fetid aspects to feed that which hasn't yet emerged. Thank you for your perspective ... it enlargens mine
I meet weekly with 2 groups online, one for over 2 years now and one that just had it's one year anniversary. I had never met any of the people in person before. I had the amazing and wonderful opportunity to meet a few people from the 2 year group around a year ago and we immediately fell into an amazing connection born from the year of our online connection. I love in the flesh communion and yearn for more of it in my life as I'm isolated from the kind of people in those groups - people who dig deep and share deeply. That said, I am astounded by the deep love and support and resonance I experience in my zoom meetings each week. The people and the field we create together keeps me grounded and sane. It's one of the silver linings of the Covid era that I cherish on a regular basis. So many people, ideas, organizations, teachings, etc. were so far away before the necessity of zoom, and now they are available in my home. Of all those things I value the relationships with people the most and feel immense gratitude to the technology that brings them to me.