You can do it!
you have the canon on your kindle now so it need not be technology free, but yeah. close the rest of the world out for a few hours. Independent thoughts will be yours.

Tee hee hee hee

Well tell her while you are on here, the forum Grandma is watching over you.

kazza,

I am right there with you. I don't hate modern technology; in fact, I'm very thankful for the conveniences and quality-of-life improvements it can offer. Yet, I feel our modern culture has allowed technology almost to enslave us. The machines have, in fact, taken over. Reliance on technology has robbed us of times of deep reflective thought, appreciation of the natural world around us, and the special closeness that comes only through live interaction with one another.

Maybe I'm a fuddy-duddy, but I absolutely refuse to involve myself in Facebook, Twitter, and the like. I don't get on forums--I'm only on here because I love the show, and also love interacting with like-minded people all around the world (Croatia! How exciting!).

I don't have a cell phone. My wife, who homeschools our children, has one for emergencies, but it's one of those pay-as-you-go deals that you have to add minutes to when you run out. We live on a farm, and my children (ages 8 and 3) have never even watched television. We have one "telly", but only use it to rent movies to watch when we need to escape for a few hours. It's amazing how our kids entertain themselves and truly enjoy life just being out in the garden, petting the horses and cows, feeding the chickens, etc. Life doesn't get any better than that.

We once took an entire week for an interesting "experiment". We had just finished reading (again) The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This is the account of where they ran out of food during a particularly cold, long winter and had nothing but potatoes to eat, water to drink, and straw to twist to burn in the fire to stay as warm as they could. So, our family actually turned off all the breakers in the house except what we needed to keep the fridge and stove running, etc. We used oil lamps to see, and all week long ate only bread and potatoes, and drank milk or water. It got kinda interesting, but we all look back fondly on our week of "disconnected-ness", and you know what we found? We weren't disconnected at all--we had each other, and no distractions, and it was (for the most part) glorious. Now, in all honesty, we were all very glad when it was over, but still, it was something we'll all remember forever.

Well, maybe that was TMI, but your thread strikes a chord. Thanks for posting...

Oh God. I will NEVER go anywhere without my phone. I can't survive for more than half an hour without checking Facebook, Twitter, my emails, this forum or my RP forum. I was on holiday last week, my parents suggested that perhaps I could try going for a week without going on the internet. HA. I laughed in their face.