“There is no Sleepy Hollow on the Internet, no peaceful spot where contemplativeness can work its restorative magic. There is only the endless, mesmerizing buzz of the urban street.” Nicholas Carr, from The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (New York: Norton, 2010)
Monday, May 5, 2014
Blog #5
My family owns a cabin in Southeastern Ohio, in a place nobody has ever heard of. It is so far away from civilization that you have to take multiple dirt roads to reach it. The cabin itself is not much. A small one room structure with a patio and an out house. It is blue with white edging--a cute little thing. But the most beautiful part about the cabin is its loneliness. With nobody around for miles it is a place for me to be alone with my thoughts.
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