Today is a Cottage Day. I’m replicating as best I can those winter days at the cottage by the sea that I rented from 2009-2014. It’s not hard to begin if I do nothing more than keep the TV off. During those five seasons I only recall turning it on twice: once to watch President Obama accept the Nobel Peace Prize, and once to check the weather.
How easy it has been to be drawn into the impeachment drama. Addictions come in many forms; my absorption in news has taken me away my longing to live a life in solitude, silence and simplicity. This morning that longing returned and I found myself making a conscious commitment not to check in with the news today.
Instead, I walked across the street to the library and here I sit in a comfortable chair in the original octagonal building of 1863. No TV then or now.
How easy it has been to be drawn into the impeachment drama. Addictions come in many forms; my absorption in news has taken me away my longing to live a life in solitude, silence and simplicity. This morning that longing returned and I found myself making a conscious commitment not to check in with the news today.
Instead, I walked across the street to the library and here I sit in a comfortable chair in the original octagonal building of 1863. No TV then or now.