Not in the mood to howl into the void today, but I have been doing things like reading up on alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo, browsers like Brave and Opera, and other possibilities out there as I try to slowly divest my time and attention away from Big Tech. It’s slow going as I am no techie, but I can say I like DuckDuckGo so far. Haven’t missed Google at all. I’ve been using a computer since the early 80’s, and much as most of us are plugged in nowadays, I feel like many of us are now in that space of trying to figure out just how much time we want to be here in a digital world and where we want to hang out when we are here. Someday my presence here will just be another ghost in the machine, captured for all eternity, but in the meantime I truly do want to be a Spirit living in the material world.
“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover’s Corners… Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking… and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths…and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” Thornton Wilder, Our Town
