I love reading posts like these. How we navigate the digital/social media world in a healthy way is something that takes up a lot of my brain space these days, primarily for myself, but also thinking about my kids and what sort of world they'll be headed into. Freya's post, which I also found super interesting and really insightful, made me realise that I have been given the gift of experiencing the analog world (born in 1989) and I can choose to purposefully treasure and curate some of the valuable ways of life we experienced then (though of course, they weren't all valuable!), and pass those on. Do you read any of Ruth Gaskovski's writing? She writes a lot about living an analog life: schooloftheunconformed.substack.com
Hi Kate, thanks for sharing! I totally agree. What are some ways you are choosing to treasure and curate those ways of life? One thing I've been working on is putting together physical photo albums of me and my husband in our growing up years, so that our future children can look through them! My husband also has a record player, and I would love to get a CD player for our future kids to play full albums and books on tape... so many of my thoughts and ideas definitely come from imagining how I want my children to grow up!
Yes, I follow Ruth, though I'm not subscribed! She's definitely extreme, and I respect it. Do you recommend any of her specific essays?
I love reading posts like these. How we navigate the digital/social media world in a healthy way is something that takes up a lot of my brain space these days, primarily for myself, but also thinking about my kids and what sort of world they'll be headed into. Freya's post, which I also found super interesting and really insightful, made me realise that I have been given the gift of experiencing the analog world (born in 1989) and I can choose to purposefully treasure and curate some of the valuable ways of life we experienced then (though of course, they weren't all valuable!), and pass those on. Do you read any of Ruth Gaskovski's writing? She writes a lot about living an analog life: schooloftheunconformed.substack.com
Hi Kate, thanks for sharing! I totally agree. What are some ways you are choosing to treasure and curate those ways of life? One thing I've been working on is putting together physical photo albums of me and my husband in our growing up years, so that our future children can look through them! My husband also has a record player, and I would love to get a CD player for our future kids to play full albums and books on tape... so many of my thoughts and ideas definitely come from imagining how I want my children to grow up!
Yes, I follow Ruth, though I'm not subscribed! She's definitely extreme, and I respect it. Do you recommend any of her specific essays?