Narrowing

Chapter 330

This has been the most unusual year ever. I have been in the same spot on the planet for 15 weeks. Unprecedented for me personally, and many others too. Over 100 days and no flights, no road trips, no travel except virtual, this is the weirdest life ever for me, because I generally live in airports and hotels for at least a third of every year.

I booked my first hotel room of the year last night! Six months into the year, and I am booking my first hotel stay of the year. (Slowly shaking my head in disbelief). But it has been a wonderfully refreshing break in most ways. My body is thanking me and my circadian rhythms are thanking me, my sleep is thanking me and my brain is thanking me.

On the other hand, it has been terribly narrowing. My entire world has narrowed, and that has been especially dangerous in a time of sickness (COVID 19) and racial reactions (George Floyd death) and separation from my wife as she is stuck on the other side of the planet from me, and we have never been apart for this long before, and we still have a long way to go. Narrowing is also dangerous, but especially in times of crisis, when you need to think as inclusively and broadly as possible. You need to be your sharpest! A Narrowing world is not going to assist you in being your sharpest.

Our world here on the farm has narrowed down to our Coronavirus project and cows and guns and ourselves. Watching the news only makes it worse.

You need to read and to think. Those are the antidotes to narrowing.