Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Leaving social media behind

This weekend I watched "The Social Dilemma" and it convinced me that social media is not the human or the humane way to interact with people. I am leaving Facebook and Twitter behind. My life before the internet was quite fulfilling and I know it will be fulfilling when I decide where my attention goes. 

Humanity must stay focused on its humanity. Is a blog that much better? I hope so and I think so because it takes a few moment of quiet and solitude and thinking to write and to read. Writing is thinking, I am fond of telling students. Well, it's time to put that into practice and to "resurrect" my blog and see where it takes me. Come along with me.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

I am worth more than this

Knight, knight, knight
on a white horse
fixing everything
but me
but himself

I am worth more than this

Not a substitute
Not a replacement
Not a role
Not something to occupy
the place of someone or something else

I am worth more than this

I am not a dish rag
to be put aside
when something more
interesting, shiny
comes along

I am worth more than this

I don't know if I am who you think I am
I want to be for you no longer
and I want you to know my value to you

[I wrote this in 2015.]

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Solitude



Roles in life
complete with scripts
Be a man
Be a woman
Follow the script
Imagine understanding
Imagine connection
when the script of another
resembles one's own

The script reinforces
connections
Connections reinforce
the scripts

A few accept solitude
A few ask why
and disrupt the circle
and cause discomfort