World Detox

Thursday, /October 24, 2006.

I feel like I’m on email/computer/electricity/phone/contact with the outside world detox. Computer battery time is limited so I have to use it sparingly, so I’m re-learning about means of entertainment without electricity.

I have been here for 6 days and between the holidays, we’ve only had 2 days of work. That’s 4 days of sitting and trying to figure out what to do with myself in this little town.

I spent three hours this afternoon reading a book. I grabbed my camera and strolled around shooting discreet photos. I talk to my guards and the kids that walk by and went to the office to see if anyone was around (which they all were, but just sitting on the benches by the road chatting). Attempted to cook tomato soup and couscous. Fought off jittery jitters and twitches of the detox… “Email… I want to check my email…”

Internet/TV/iPods/Constant connection with humanity is a drug. I wonder if because we now grow from childhood surrounded by a million possible ways to entertain ourselves, we have lost the ability just “to be.”

Detox.