I challenge you – Take time out.  Experience your easy entertainment a little more creatively than usual.

Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination — think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

— Terry Brooks

A few weeks ago, in the company of friends, I mockingly discounted a recommendation from the Reflection Booklet we use as a guide for our discussions:

Avoid easy entertainment and distraction this week.  Turn off the television and do something that gives rise to real joy.  Take a walk, work in a garden, play a musical instrument, read a book, call a friend you have been out of touch with for a long time.

— www.sccquest.org

As I read those words, I thought: Yeah, that’s NOT gonna happen… especially the Continue reading » Easy Entertainment, Easy Distraction…