electricity free

Well, tonight is the first House-wide electricity/tech-free evening. I suppose that's not entirely true. Technically Sunday the non-twin Living Acts participants gave it a little trial run while Annie and I were at a wedding shower.
Tonight is the first one I'm attending.
There are two sorts of feelings I have about this. Obviously there's a sort of fascination and pride in realizing that we're trying something so...unorthadox in today's culture. As a kid I used to get so excited during thunder storms when the electricity went out. Even then I was a little, budding extravert and having no electricity meant that no one was allowed to be distracted from the physical company we provided for each other. I loved that. I was always the pesky little sister knocking on my sisters' doors asking them how much longer until they wanted to play.
So of course, there's something really nestalgic and fun about the idea of a tech-free evening with our little living acts family.
But as I said there are other feelings too.
I am still that little extravert and though as a young kid my extraversion showed up in my eagerness to play with my sisters...the social circles have spiraled outward: multiplied. I love my many circles dearly. I love my Living Acts circle; I love my Charlottesville Circle; I love my Bluffton Circle; the list goes on.. Alot of my circles exist in other regions: other states even. Yes yes..this is why I facebook and email and text and....use technology.
And blogging. I love blogging.
But I don't want to be the kind of person who can't escsape the modern world for a day or two.
I want to sit on the roof of the living acts house and not realize time even existing as I sink into a drawing in my sketchbook.

:)