Twitter … vacation

When in the course of human events …

That’s how all proclamations start right?   I’m taking an extended break from twitter, and most other social media.  It’s become a distraction in my life, as so many fun things are.  Twitter, in the way that I do it, is pulling my focus away from my real life. 

Is social media a bad thing?  Not at all.  But when it becomes a part of someone at the expense of others then it requires a pause, some time for reflection.   I spend way too much time looking down at my blackberry and not enough time looking forward, literally and figuratively. 

I have much to do this summer and I need to focus at the tasks at hand.  So I’m going off-grid in a minor way.  I may blog a little more, even take a little more pictures.  But the constant feed of information has to stop, at least through the end of summer.

There’s a movie, “Until the End of the World”  Where in people get a hold of a device that plays back their dreams and visions.  They couldn’t stop watching it; it was video crack.  The only way to break the addiction was to lay down with Aborigines and travel through Dreamtime for a night. 

I need to lay down with an Aborigine.

See you in the fall Twitterverse

My Son at Seventeen

My son Eli turned 17 this last Friday. 

He has two more years of high school left (had a redux of kindergarten).  He’s thinking about going into the military after graduation.  I told him he’ll have to get a haircut. 

It seems like only yesterday when he was 4 year-old when I and his mother split up.  He’s had ups and downs like many of us, but he’s turning out pretty good.  I wish his grades were better, but he’s very intelligent.  I wish he had a job, but he’s thrifty with the money he has (if your goal is buying a lot of cheetos, which it is).  I wish he’d even get a hair cut, but not really. 

Soon he’ll be on his way with his life.  I’ll miss him.  He’s grown too fast.