As I am writing this, I am on a plane returning from a ten-day stay in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is obviously different in levels of technology compared to my home country of the United States. The pervasiveness of technology isn’t there.
Of course, the tourists had their iPods, digital cameras, laptops and all that stuff. The rest did not.
The interesting thing about just watching people was the number of people with journals doing things the old-fashioned analog way: writing in a journal.
Writing in an airport, writing at the beach, writing overlooking an active volcano.
I came across this woman sitting up against a small building, in the sun, gazing at what you see in the picture above, and writing in her journal. I almost stopped to ask what she was writing, but it was clear she was in a different world with her writing. It was the technology of engagement with her work, if you will.
Technology is what you make it. A journal is a great tool because it can be taken anywhere, used any time, and serves as a reference for your experience at the time.
Scot
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