“Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” plus 1 more |
| Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age Posted: 14 Jul 2010 10:45 AM PDT 1. First there was the epiphany. After ending a cell-phone conversation with his mother (while he was driving—tsk, tsk) he experienced a surreal sensation, in his words, a "feeling of time out of time" (page 23). After hanging up and a few minutes of quiet contemplation, he says he was suddenly able to draw up memories and develop an even stronger connection to her, all because of a few seconds on his "clamshell-style phone." After that, he began to semiworship his phone and simultaneously to vow to recognize the depth that technology can add to human experience. Despite his epiphany, Powers has come to the realization that being connected all the time also hurts us. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Gingerbread Manor offers 19th century pace, philosophy Posted: 15 Jul 2010 02:06 AM PDT Darla Bair was really bothered by something she noticed in our society: For many people, life moves at too hectic a pace. The owner of Gingerbread Manor Bed and Breakfast, south of Brockport, Bair decided to do something about that. She has run the inn at 6590 Lake Road for the last 12 years. This summer, she added the School of Living Arts, which amounts to using her B&B as a place to reclaim a little sanity, one class or experience at a time. "I want this space to feel like a sanctuary," Bair said recently in her spacious 19th-century farm homestead. "I feel like many folks in our community ... right now are searching for wholeness in their souls." Hence, the growing interest in yoga, meditation and retreats, she said. Bair feels there isn't just a need to learn new skills to cope with stress, but also to "re-skill," or learn skills that have been absent for a generation or two. "I grew up learning skills, to use a sewing machine and knitting and baking bread and how to hang your wash on the line," Bair said, noting those skills were imparted by a grandmother who lived in Lancaster, Pa., Amish country. A recently retired school music teacher and still the director of the Amadeus Chorale, Bair is offering classes in music. But she also is listing classes in gardening, knitting, dressing your dolly, and cooking. Jam-making is a possibility and she has a series of house concerts that will begin in the fall. Two lambs are going to live in the stone-walled barn on the property starting later this month and that could lead to spinning and weaving. "I come from a family of all girls," Bair said, explaining the closet of prom dresses and finery she keeps in a ground-floor closet for the dress-up birthday parties she hosts. Her two girls are grown and on their own. When Bair isn't holding parties, she offers the parlor for book clubs to meet. "I just love to have people here, enjoying the space." And it is a lovely space, with a full dining room and parlor set aside for guests to enjoy. There's also a library, which doubles as a music room. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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