![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m tempted to excerpt every paragraph – but I’ll limit myself to this gem: It’s a long piece, but worth every syllable. Well, of course, I had always heard it, but it had been so long since I listened. I heard birdsong for the first time in years. At one point, I got lost and had to rely on my sense of direction to find my way back. The immediate impulse - to grab my phone and photograph it - was foiled by an empty pocket. On a meditative walk through the forest on my second day, I began to notice not just the quality of the autumnal light through the leaves but the splotchy multicolors of the newly fallen, the texture of the lichen on the bark, the way in which tree roots had come to entangle and overcome old stone walls. Things that usually escaped me began to intrigue me. Along with withdrawal pains come insights, such as this: Sullivan tells of his arrival at a mediation center (a converted novitiate) to work on his addiction to social media. I followed Alan Hommerding’s advice on FB and printed the piece out so I could sit in a quiet place and read it with concentration, unplugged from any social media. Now here is a hard-hitting and deeply inspiring piece to read on the Lord’s Day or on any day: “I Used to Be a Human” by Andrew Sullivan. ![]()
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