I am not all that interested in television. Usually in the evening after dinner, my spouse and I…
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\n… go to our basement leisure room. He turns on the TV and plays TV shows that he has recorded on a DVR. I may sit at my computer, answer email, and write blog posts, then curl up with my spouse and watch whatever he has recorded. Usually that bores me to death, so I just zone out and appreciate feeling the warmth of his body next to mine.<\/p>\n
Sometimes we say, “enough of all this media.” Off with the TV and DVR. Off with the computer. Off with any other media device (radio, CD player, etc.) <\/p>\n
We pull out a book that each of us has been reading, and read aloud to each other. We choose paragraphs or sections of a book that we like, and read it with expressiveness. Then we explain what we liked about it and discuss what we read. That is, we have a regular old-fashioned “book club” between the two of us.<\/p>\n
We will read to each other for hours… until the bewitching hour of 8:30, then it’s off to bed. <\/p>\n
But it sure is fun and peaceful to turn off the technology and read a real, honest-to-goodness book!<\/p>\n
Life is short: cut the technology and enjoy peace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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