Ok…  So the past few weeks I have felt like a man strapped to the front of a bullet train.  I keep meaning to get back here and write and keep putting it off because other urgent matters have been calling my attention.  That being said I have had a post rattling around in my brain for two weeks and now I am finally getting it down.

About two weeks ago I was slated to vaca with the fam but I got Irene’d.  This lovely mass of wind and rain decided to make landfall at my vacation spot of choice rendering my plans useless.  Soooooo we loaded up on goodies, turned on the weather channel, and road out the storm in good ole Pa.  Despite a lot of wind, and a lot of rain we kept our electricity and a dry basement through out…

Until 9:30am Sunday morning -

Right as I was making the second pot of coffee, just after breakfast we lost power.  Nothing worked!  You never realize how noisy life is until all the noise turns off, immediately we turned to digital devices but those too lost juice and we found ourselves going old school, wicked old school as in colonial old school.  Candle light, paper, and pens.

After the initial shock and twitching wore off from my digital decompression it was nice, it was quiet, I actually found some time to rest, to read, to reflect, to nap.  It was wonderful!  I never thought I could enjoy silence so much.

It reminded me of the necessity for all of us to go dark every once in a while.  Better yet daily.  To shut off the phones, notifications, email, texts, tv’s, iPods, iPads, or whatever else and just rest, just listen, just be.  I think we miss too much because we are plugged into too much.  I know I need it.

 

That being said the next morning it was nice to be plugged back in!