It seems to me that one of the great risks of the electronic age is that it flattens our world, our deeper sense of things. Notice things like the emotion you feel when you move from the flat screens of our lives to the world of nature; sight, sound, smell, feeling -- things like coolness, wind, moisture, etc. You can almost taste the difference and we often feel a deep yearning for more of it.
...like the dawning of the morning sun over a ridge, the warmth and the perking up it creates for everything in its splash.
...like the sound of a waterfall that makes you 'have' to go find it.
...like fallen leaves crunching under your feet against the earth as you hike.
...like the brilliant white of a new blanket of snow, especially when the sun turns it's flakes to diamonds.
Something about an electronic life seems to deaden something within us that wants to be alive.
