Wonderful sentiment, Robert. This is something I try to negotiate with myself over almost daily, for the reasons you pointed out. Experience has its won pace that I think technology can now easily exceed. It’s good to slow down and take a good look around every so often.
(And this is a minor rant but it’s the central problem I have with Ferris Bueller. Good message, but not at all executed because it’d make for poor entertainment. Had he followed his own advice the movie would have been a 90-minute clarinet practice session filmed in real time and he’d have never left his room!)
Thank you James. That's a good rant, and might make a good post. His idea of carpe diem is pretty much what you'd expect from a teenager. A bit childish, except that he does, inadvertently, have some meaningful conversations with friends (and contemplates art!)
Thank you Philip. I think I have a good enough grasp of both kinds of stanzas that it felt natural. And I agree, there is value in mining attention. Although I don't think it's an infinite resource, nor can it be continuously extracted.
Wonderful sentiment, Robert. This is something I try to negotiate with myself over almost daily, for the reasons you pointed out. Experience has its won pace that I think technology can now easily exceed. It’s good to slow down and take a good look around every so often.
(And this is a minor rant but it’s the central problem I have with Ferris Bueller. Good message, but not at all executed because it’d make for poor entertainment. Had he followed his own advice the movie would have been a 90-minute clarinet practice session filmed in real time and he’d have never left his room!)
Thank you James. That's a good rant, and might make a good post. His idea of carpe diem is pretty much what you'd expect from a teenager. A bit childish, except that he does, inadvertently, have some meaningful conversations with friends (and contemplates art!)
Love the "double-ness" of "mine our attention." I see and hear an explosion!
Thanks Peter. Yeah there's a blowing up and a carving out, an extracting and a harvesting.
Excellent concluding couplet.
Thank you Marcus.
Great verses! Did going from quatrains to tercets take nerves? Also, I really hope the more I mine my attention, the more perceptive I get.
Thank you Philip. I think I have a good enough grasp of both kinds of stanzas that it felt natural. And I agree, there is value in mining attention. Although I don't think it's an infinite resource, nor can it be continuously extracted.
Nicely done!
Thank you Sam
Exceptional. One of my favorites so far.
Thank you Tullius. I will take that to heart.
A life story in this one. Thank you.
Thank you Katerina.