I’m joining Pete in an attempt at fewer digital inputs per day for the month of June. We both set our phones on an end table this morning and have mostly left them there in favor of reading, puttering around the house, or playing with kiddo.
One digital input that I struggle with is music. In the spirit of the challenge I don’t think I really need to avoid it, but it was fun to think of other ways to listen. I dug out my old ipod shuffle and after charging it still worked! Not sure about how the battery life will be though. I also half considered thrifting an old portable cd player, especially since I have that one cd coming in the mail. lol.
Since an ipod or cd player are technically still digital, I think I’m setting my goal as less internet, more dumb devices. A month without doomscrolling will be nice. And since I won’t be staring at my phone before bed, I wonder if I’ll sleep better.
Today’s reading:
Poem: Hope by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (from a book of poems on gratitude and hope that Pete got for me a few years ago)
Essay: Any Kind of Leaving by Jillian Barnet
Short story: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
Books 4 and 5 of BL Metamorphosis, a manga that I think Storygraph recommended to me? It was very sweet.
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