Outside

This month’s IndieWeb Carnival is hosted by Juha-Matti Santala—the theme is love letter. I’m going to write about the one and only, “Outside”. “Outside what?” You may think. Well really anywhere outside, anywhere but in(side). It’s warming up here in the ol’ northern hemisphere where I live and I like to spend as much of it as I can not indoors. You see professionally I poke at computers, which means I sit quite a bit, and a lot of that sitting tends to be inside (especially in colder months). But with the portability of a laptop, I can do some of said work outside too. Specifically, on my screened-in porch which affords me a lot of the benefits of being outside, without some of the pesky downsides (direct sunlight, annoying bugs, rain, etc…). When it’s time to take a break, or after-work, or on weekends, I enjoy tending to my garden, mucking about in the yard, going for walks, really anything just to be outside. Growing up in the 90’s, I didn’t have a smart phone or particularly…