April 28, 2003

  • Lately, it seems, I am, at times and involuntarily, unable to articulate anything other than utterly simple sentences.


    Yesterday, while helping my friend Mike implement a DSL line troublesome and non-functional since January, I reverted to calling DSL technical assistance.  Of course, one of my professions is ‘tech support’, so the tech that I reached and I immediately established a good rapport ‘talking tech’ at fairly elevated levels.  At least, until I asked him: “Why must things be so complex?  Why can’t things just leave other things alone?”  He was dumbfounded and speechless.  I had regressed to absolute simplicity and broken the ‘tech-talk’ trust.  Mike, who had been solemnly listening to the conversation for half an hour, had to leave the room laughing when I tumbled into my ‘one hand clapping’ zen-ism.


    What can I say?  Minimalism is beckoning me.

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