We Can Be Free

Here and there people Tweet, mobile data’s really neat - read, reply and then delete

We are textestrians!

Dining with friends I do adore.  Yikes, the conversation’s a bore.  Humm, what’s up beyond the door?

We are textestrians :)

To the mall with PDA near, when wielded in front it becomes a spear and away from us others must veer

We are textestrians

Immediacy is a continuous need, “Can’t wait, right now," that’s the creed.  Rapid blather, heed and bleed ...

We are textestrians?

It’s so easy to pontificate, share some news or foment some hate.  No eye contact - isn’t it great ?!?

We are textestrians :(

Addiction to the broadcast word, senders being barely heard above the din of the digital herd

We are textestrians

At the movies or with a book, fighting the urge to take a look at devices placed “off the hook”

We are textestrians?

Escape and make some quality time - nod to a neighbor, follow a vine.  Yes, the physical world’s sublime

We are textestrians?

Watch the birds and the bees, look around, savor Thee, and be fully present non-digitally

No longer textestrians, we can be free