Kudos to Neil Young

The phrase “stop and smell the roses” is better framed in a different era. A time of vacuum tube delineations, absent the bandwidth to support a twenty-four-hour news cycle and the latest addition to our conscious tapestry, these tireless global social networks, composed predominantly of binary bullshit.

There was a place to escape – shelter from our social storm.

Nowadays, we realize we’re always plugged in, eerily aware that even when you try to tune out, technology ensures you’re always tuned in. I have no escape phrases to offer. Just an occasional wish that a…