Not quite on earth
July 16, 2006 – 4:28 pmTraveling with a small child takes an excruciatingly long time. Audrey (age 2.8) is actually not that small any more; when she decides that your stomach is a trampoline, it’s a very good idea at this point to dissuade her.
Went to Allandale Farm in Brookline for the first time today. They’re the last working farm in the Boston/Brookline area, and boy are their strawberries good. I feel so disconnected from the world in this 2006-techie lifestyle; my food comes from cans, my transportation from a large lunk of steel, I sleep in a drywall box, wear clothes spun from plastic, and talk to other people by hitting buttons and reading letters on an electric screen. Sometimes I feel like I don’t actually live on this planet at all, but I don’t actually know how to; if you booted me out into the woods with a knife, I’d be dead within a month.
I admire people who design technologies that help connect us with the world instead of adding another layer of abstraction between people and people or people and nature.
One Response to “Not quite on earth”
Hey Mel! Speaking of dying in the woods, want to go camping before classes start? I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing in the fall yet, but I have a sudden deluge of free time in August, and I’m trying to shove a summer’s worth of stuff in it.
Anyway, the white and green mountains are lovely. So are the Blue Ridge, but I need to come up to MA anyway and methinks you don’t need to come south. :)
Have a good rest of summer!
By ErinD on Jul 23, 2006