Our family enjoys to go on yearly camping trips. The prep and return is always exhausting but the reward is a few days of technological silence. To explain, we camp way up in the Smokies where there is no cell signal. You may think a Technical Support Engineer like myself would have a love for technology, but on the contrary the longer I am in this field, the more I find myself liking it less and less and being drawn to a much more digitally quiet life.
When camping, for three days we hear no phones, no texts, no calls, no social media notifications, nothing but the sound of the water on the rocks in the river behind our tents, and sometimes a very loud owl waking us up in the middle of the night. The girls get to explore nature, catch butterflies, play in streams, and burn off pent up energy while we get relax by a fire, and spend time together, while chasing off the occasional bear.
I know this isn’t a long post, and I don’t even know what the purpose of it is, except maybe to encourage someone else to take some time to unplug as well. Or maybe I am just missing those quiet mornings being woken up by the sound of birds, instead of alarms.
Little Piece of Quiet 