Learning To Simplify

Last weekend, I was in Indianapolis with 650 of my closest friends, reminiscing about my youth and pretending that I know everything about the blogosphere.  Of course, I was soundly ridiculed when it was revealed that: a) I carried a Blackberry and a cell phone (“Irrational redundancy!”), b) I abused twitter (“It’s not a tracking service.”) and c) I didn’t have a facebook page (“You’re kidding, right?”).

I am happy to report that I have already fixed a) (thank you Steve Jobs), b) is improving, and as for c), well I never knew I was so popular.  I felt extremely liberated.

So in the midst of all this technological achievement, our corporate spam filter failed (or the guys at DefCon got around it), and a piece of spam got through which said only the following:

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” Zora Neale Hurston

No subject line, no links, no discount canadian pharmacies.  Just the quote.  

I came home and reread Their Eyes Were Watching God cover to cover in about three hours.  Sometimes, you just have to remind yourself that it really doesn’t have to be so complicated.