This past Sunday was week two of my experiment. The first Sunday went well – but I was I think more concientious about what I was doing and why so the reflective elements of the experience were in full drive on the day. This week however, things. . . . .got lost in the frey. It was a full day, a busy day – more in terms of how my partner and I interacted and what we accomplished in that interaction than in general business that is not in keeping with the idea of “sabbath”.

The constant glow of the computer screen having been dimmed and silenced meant that conversation replaced the clickity click of keys. Don’t mis-understand me, my other half and I talk and engage with one another constantly – even when we are mindlessly surfing the net. But there is a difference in . . . .quality, or maybe better, effectiveness when all your attention is in the moment rather than being divided between the information being collected by the eyes, and the “other” information being collected by the ears. While I did not appreciate it on Sunday – it was a “full” day and so did not feel . . . .”sabbath like” in some strange way – in hindsight my awareness of our interaction and how it was slightly different would seem to be yet another way in which the experiment cultivates mindfulness.