It's good to read this update from you, Carly, and know that you are enjoying summer, and too busy tending to life and land to be bothered in front of a screen very much. I too have been enjoying summertime, and am reluctant to spend much time typing out my thoughts on it. I am living my life, and the world of the internet can wait.
Something I thought while reading this: I love how much depth of meaning can be packed into a capitalized word: Hill. Your words about the animals fending for themselves on the open Hill, coupled with what you have already shared so much about in your other writing, conjures an image in my mind that can only be compared to poetry. That only a single word can sum up for the imagination what long pedantic articles would struggle to explain to our left brain centred world is a marvel to me.
Joel, it’s good to see you here. Your comments always bring a smile and remind me of the human connections that can be made through these online platforms when we are all so geographically far apart. It’s good to spend time away from the screen and living fully in the real, life is simpler and smaller and that is good in many ways, but it’s also good to have this window into the wider world and to connect with people we would never meet “in real life”. But I’m glad to hear you are enjoying summer and living your life off screen.
I love that you picked up on all that from the capitalisation, you have perfectly captured what I meant by it. It seems only fitting, after all.
Indeed, the connection to others who might not otherwise ever know is a special thing -- and I see it as a redemption of this technology that is so often troublesome for those of us wanting to live more grounded lives. I'm thankful that we have a choice in how we use these things.
It's good to read this update from you, Carly, and know that you are enjoying summer, and too busy tending to life and land to be bothered in front of a screen very much. I too have been enjoying summertime, and am reluctant to spend much time typing out my thoughts on it. I am living my life, and the world of the internet can wait.
Something I thought while reading this: I love how much depth of meaning can be packed into a capitalized word: Hill. Your words about the animals fending for themselves on the open Hill, coupled with what you have already shared so much about in your other writing, conjures an image in my mind that can only be compared to poetry. That only a single word can sum up for the imagination what long pedantic articles would struggle to explain to our left brain centred world is a marvel to me.
Joel, it’s good to see you here. Your comments always bring a smile and remind me of the human connections that can be made through these online platforms when we are all so geographically far apart. It’s good to spend time away from the screen and living fully in the real, life is simpler and smaller and that is good in many ways, but it’s also good to have this window into the wider world and to connect with people we would never meet “in real life”. But I’m glad to hear you are enjoying summer and living your life off screen.
I love that you picked up on all that from the capitalisation, you have perfectly captured what I meant by it. It seems only fitting, after all.
Indeed, the connection to others who might not otherwise ever know is a special thing -- and I see it as a redemption of this technology that is so often troublesome for those of us wanting to live more grounded lives. I'm thankful that we have a choice in how we use these things.
Welcome back!
Thank you, Claudia!