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IN PRAISE OF DISCONNECTION
Saturday Oct. 31, 2015
Eye-feast yesterday, Idaho memories you can’t buy in any book.
Kudos to those who design, build and manage Idaho roads. Other jurisdictions take note – you CAN have quality like this. They’ve done it. Nature provided raw material, but that experience – through drivers’ eyes – all man-done. Two stretches (Boise Forest and Payette Forest that made the road to Hana seem like child’s play) of driving challenge, take driver thought curves, elevation changes, every kind of scenery and season. Credit due as well to those who’ve protected such spectacular wilderness against …
I work out ideas and problems better, more clearly, in self-dialogue isolation … twelve hours yesterday, disconnected (cell-phone service spotty all day), gave me plenty of quiet time to absorb Idaho with my eyes while letting my brain visit many other destinations.
I should disconnect more.
Mark Kolke
P.S.: only so many hours in any day. Yesterday, driving (12 hrs) and sleep (8 hrs.), little time for anything else – so much quiet time, resting vocal cords. Doing this trip in three days made no sense to me. Doing it in two seems a little crazy too …
written / published from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
morning walk: 9C/49F, rainy, dark – a walk around the parking lot – missing ‘familiar territory’ and a dog to walk with …
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