CYBER GAP YEAR

What is a cyber-gap year? Define it as you will as such. Maybe say, after six years take a break of sorts for a year digitally; ideally, a sabatical? Create your own meaningful defn. Write the tome. It is a concept to me where I take some time off from the "straight line to the top" and utilize some time off in the digital [0,1] s world to billibong about/veer off in my own direction and explore. I keep the day job say, and downtime it w/ the usual practices/patterns I have had in cyberspace on another frequency/channel. A channel, so to speak. An example. Maybe extreme, I took time from 1991 to the present to go by choice w/out tv basically (except for about one half a year totally here and there.) People were practically throwing tv sets at me. Duck quick. I declined holding diligently to the concept; stop along the way. In the first five years I wrote a novel, painted two hundred and fifty paintings-oils, and earned a masters degree, training for 10Ks and swimming masters. My motto completely is; "... a wise man stops along the way." Mantras have power. I took time off from that digitally/cyber-wise and was basically off the dear "mutual friend" internet from 1997 to 2010. One might say a silent Friend. Both of these plays/chess moves gave the pleasant gift of a unique perspective. A new "present." Thanks for the gift. Julia Cameron suggests a one week out of 12 weeks reading deprivation (by choice) exercise/task. Distributed at about the first third point of a revamping of changes it is an amazing tool. The year before I composed in 2007-2008 (I totalled 250 compositions in that harvest calendar/Jewish calendar year-365 days.) I took time off from rock and roll and almost all jazz and minimized classical in what I listened by choice. It gave me time to fill the well, rest, integrate, assimilate, digest, and create w/ more so a clean slate as such, ... and the blessed act of composing come clearly from my interpretations patently. The canvas blank, the tabula erasu was set; primed gessoed and ready to roll. The blank composition paper, in my case in realty a blank Sibelius file, a new file music composition software file was the canvas. It gave me more a sense of my own experience, my own uniqueness, and individuality. I have tried the Artists Way reading deprivation for a week out of twelve at the fourth week and other things get done, healthy things, long awaited dreams come true. Whatever form, dream a little. Dream a lot. Dream big. Pick yourself to live your life!!! And create. Create your world. It is the genesis. Today. Now.

Thanks, T.E. Please share.