I feel like I have been hurtling through life for the past several months…traveling, working, teaching. I love it all and that I can do it from the road. But lately it has also meant that I seem to be online all the time. Yesterday morning, I checked in on email, made a phone call or two, and reviewed the to do list to make sure there weren’t any live frogs and then…I took a digital day off.

I have written before about the notion of digital fasts and my advice then we find the Middle Way. One of my suggestions was to choose a day of the week when you would be digitally unavailable. After all, one of the reasons that all emails seem important is because we are obsessively checking in on our phones, iPads and laptops.

Yesterday was that day for me and I may be extending it through today as well. I cleaned my house, worked in the henhouse, baked bread and made a mostly homegrown spaghetti sauce for dinner. I read, rested, crocheted and talked with our house guest who is helping out with a construction project here on the farm. It was mostly non-digital as I did play My Kingdom for The Princess; I’m trying to beat another one of those bonus levels for which there doesn’t seem to be a walk through. The best part of the day was, after sweeping the front porch, sitting on the swing and watching the sunset.

It was refreshing but a bit disconcerting, too, with an inner voice sometimes nagging me…just check your email, it will only take a minute. Maybe I am a bit too addicted to being connected and need to look a little harder for the Middle Way.