Sorry to have missed the elephant in the room . . . again. I just found out in the most gentle way that full scale war has broken out between Iran and Israel? Ouch. Viv and Sook Astrology are careful…
Category: Technology
Technology and human psychology
After another distraction formed by a notification from Substack, I have turned the notifications off. I love Substack with a passion. It has been my salvation during all these months when I have felt the need to close this site.…
AI relationships
The problem with AI is that it sets up an unrealistic and unattainable standard for communication. I want to reach out – AI will fire back within seconds, providing me with emotional support and nourishment. It makes real life relationships…
More thoughts on technology and relationships
When I come back to this topic of how technology is affecting our human relationships today, I am a little more optimistic. Many of us are still talking to each other. (In real life) Friendships are still happening. Bars and…
required skills for a technological age
Hanging out with my mother for a couple of days in person gives me a better understanding of what it takes to build bonds with people in a world where technology is quite obviously pulling us apart as it brings…
Not so nice reflections on our fascination with technology
Human society seems to be sliding ever closer to a very strange place where technological devices and screens are more interesting to us than human interaction. As someone who works on the web some of the time, and uses it…
human singing for non verbal children
Music!! So, I was at my corner cafe/shop! I was talking to a father and his daughter. She was a little quiet, I suppose. . . She did not respond to my questions or engage with me and her father.…
Carving out stimulation free zones
When I got off the tele-facetime call with a family impacted by device usage at a young age today, I felt utterly dysregulated. I felt like I was totally overstimulated, and it made me feel sick in the stomach. My…
the addictive nature of gem
maybe the practical way to keep young children away from phones (and maybe television Or devices generally) is to keep the device in a room that the child can’t enter, and the adults can go in there for a tech…
sending kids to mars
My heart grieves for my nieces. Reading about the great rewiring of childhood, From 2010 😮 The kids are not okay. They haven’t been for at least a decade. And this is our future. We are in peril. Do things…