Regular readers to this blog know that I am not a technological loving person. Some folks wear that as a badge of honor--I am just being honest--I really have no interest in it.
Yes--I have a cell phone--but it is a flip phone with a senior citizen plan (who knew you qualified at age 50!) But I do not have a kindle, I don't "do" facebook or twitter and I don't text. Just don't care enough about them to sign up and learn.
I have made a conscious effort to be on the computer much less and to read more. There are a couple of chairs at our house that are designed for sitting in and reading--and this late summer and fall I am doing just that. I think I qualify as being "provincial." Just like Dorothea.
Readers will remember George Eliot and her book Middlemarch and her heroine Dorothea.
I found a vintage copy of Middlemarch at an auction recently and I have started it again.
I read it in high school--but have not cracked it open since then. "A Study of a Provincial Life"- it says on the frontispiece. One of the definitions of provincial is unsophisticated and narrow minded. That is what us "non-techie's" are sometimes called.
I don't think that is such a dreadful thing.....
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