Taking it easy today; I actually threw a Durolog into my living room fireplace so I could snuggle in and not get up. I'm thinking a lot about what I use my smartphone for and now to do else-wise. Like my camera, which I use quite a bit. Most of what I do, I could do on my desktop (and then zap!). My friend in Mexico is tech free 6 days a week--she only gets her email and whatnot when she goes to town once a week. I'm intrigued. Perhaps with the extra mental space I could make even more plant medicine, write more essays, and free up my brain energy to do something more useful. I'm not on my phone all day, but even when I'm not, it's always there like my shadow, inviting me (demanding me?) to keep up or scroll a while, all the while (as I've recently been learning) listening in on my conversations or tracking where I go and what I shop for.

It's time to break up. I'm just staring that this fake fire trying to figure out how to do that while minimizing the pain of it, especially from others who depend upon me to use it.