balcony

Tags: #attention #unplugI am taking a break from work in the afternoon, and just intentionally sitting down, outside, enjoying the view and resisting the urge to look back at the small screen that I keep in my pocket. I win the battle about half the time and admire the scattered low clouds against a perfect blue sky. The trees in the foreground are vibrant. I wonder if anyone on the highway at the far end of the parking lot happens to glance over and see me, a generic person on a 4th floor tech office balcony. I don’t see the people in the cars, just the cars. My phone wins for a couple of minutes and I check email, open YouTube and close it, scroll a little of the Bluesky infinity on the AI list until it annoys me and I wrestle control of my attention back to taking a break. The foreground trees are so vibrantly green. There are young trees in the parking lot far below, and some members of an older generation of tall pine trees, reaching higher than the balcony, and they are part of…