Off the Grid

I don't like quiet. I like having the television on while I work. It's not distracting, it's soothing.

I work virtually. My clients are in Boston, New York, and across town. My world is a desk, a set of computers, the television and my garden. It's an endless universe, I travel around the world in a flash of key strokes and clicks on the remote control. I am Aladdin on a magic carpet that flies and hovers over the most interesting stops on my journey.

Do I get lonely? Not really. If I want to hear a conversation I go over to my Twitter or if I want to send a shout to my friends, I go over to my Facebook. I am never alone.

When I do need to slip away from the electric vibrations, I set outside to the garden and just stare out. I unsnap the clasps and let my eyes wander over real dimensional fields of color, I listen to the hum of hummingbird wings and the buzzing bees. I am never off the ground, but I am off the grid.

Image: Ophelia Chong / Fish In A Bowl