> >> Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or >>> analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to >>> whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no > >> magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive.
When I lived on Kodiak Island in Alaska, the television content came on barges from Seattle. By the time it arrived, the news of the outside world was 3 weeks old. There were two radio stations, but their news content consisted of local ocean conditions and messages from shore for fishermen out at sea. There were also two papers, with news of the openings and closings of the fishing seasons and other relevant local information. (One of the papers was called the Kodiak Fish- Wrapper and Bird-cage Liner.) I lived on Kodiak for a year. At first, I tried to keep up with the outside world, but it soon seemed irrelevant. I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of the town library. I walked endlessly. I went to work. I came home. I watched the clock change. I experimented with the sound of my voice. It was not a productive time in my life, but it was a time of growth and experimentation. I vividly experienced what was going on around me. -- Heather Madrone ([email protected]) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.
