Our Director of Communications made the following suggestions to me in regards to writing an article for our alumni magazine:
A piece that touches upon and mixes the following:
1. Running & praying
2. Turning off notifications as distractions
3. Making a vacation a real vacationI see these three as strands in the same fabric — being attentive and, as my classmate who just survived a bout with cancer says, “giving yourself grace.”
I’m not sure though that I’m self-aware enough or can adequately articulate what running is like yet. The higher regions of my brain seem to shut down on a long run. I’m sure some monk somewhere has written about a similar state, but I don’t have the words for it.
And so that leaves me with the next two suggestions. I’ve begun collecting my thoughts around the evils of “notifications” on our phones and computers… we’ll see together what comes of it all.