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Tech Free Sabbath
Tech Free Sunday 5
All went largely according to plan this week. In preparation for doing an icon on an Osterrich egg (I’ve got some ideas for small triptych’s and possibly a silver panagia) I’m teaching myself to paint the “cartoon” or the outline for the icon directly on the surface. To now I’ve drawn it first on paper, [...]
Tech Free Sunday 4
The whole idea behind tech-free sabbath is to bring something to the experience that is part of my own cultivation of spiritual practice. Rather than merely “giving up” my computer for the day. Over the three previous weeks that sense of direction has been lacking. This week I gave the day a bit more focus [...]
Tech Free Sunday 3
I realised how dependent I am on my techno toys yesterday afternoon. There were about four things I wanted to do – including write up a piece for my thesis, and finish a writing project I’d promised another IC bishop – all of them were “computer dependent”. I found it oddly un-nerving yesterday to leave [...]
Tech Free Sabbath – The Second Coming
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. [...]
An Experiment: Tech Free Sabbath
In yesterdays Guardian there is an article – an excerpt from a book actually – by a chap who decided to live a biblical life for a year – literally. One of the things he had to come to grips with was keeping Sabbath. Like many of us he is surrounded by techno-toys: blackberry, laptop, [...]