Digital life is a tool like anything. It needs to be purposely channeled towards the good, and can enhance the good, if we make it do so. People (I’m guilty of this) use it to distract from life instead of work for it.
Loved this! So honest, and right on point of our closest doubts about why do we feel so disconnected, numb and floating all the time. The hand subject is very curious, it is now my argument to anything and anyone.
Hello from another fellow (ammateur as for me) writer from Brazil!
This struck a deep chord. You’ve named something I’ve felt for a long time but haven’t seen articulated this precisely—the difference between fingers and hands, convenience and contact, abstraction and embodiment. It’s not just that we’re disembodied; it’s that we’re slowly being trained out of agency, sensuality, and sovereignty. Your line “Beauty stirs desire in the deepest sense of wanting to live” encapsulates it all. We don’t need more optimization—we need re-entry into our own aliveness. Brilliant work. Thank you.
I have never thought of the hand and fingers as distinct entities. But what if you’re using the smartphone to converse with a real person and your heart beats faster? Isn’t that a bodily response?
Digital life is a tool like anything. It needs to be purposely channeled towards the good, and can enhance the good, if we make it do so. People (I’m guilty of this) use it to distract from life instead of work for it.
Loved this Sherry!! Trying to be deliberate about living a more embodied life. Also, the cover image you created for this piece is incredible haha!
it’s me and Canva against the world
hahaha sameee
Such a good reminder!
Life as love is my jam. Loved this provocation. Though I feel action and presence are often opposites. Embodiment, for me, comes with stillness.
💗💗
Yearning is the new cool.
Loved this! So honest, and right on point of our closest doubts about why do we feel so disconnected, numb and floating all the time. The hand subject is very curious, it is now my argument to anything and anyone.
Hello from another fellow (ammateur as for me) writer from Brazil!
This struck a deep chord. You’ve named something I’ve felt for a long time but haven’t seen articulated this precisely—the difference between fingers and hands, convenience and contact, abstraction and embodiment. It’s not just that we’re disembodied; it’s that we’re slowly being trained out of agency, sensuality, and sovereignty. Your line “Beauty stirs desire in the deepest sense of wanting to live” encapsulates it all. We don’t need more optimization—we need re-entry into our own aliveness. Brilliant work. Thank you.
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” - Keats
“Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships with her face, not her personality”
this is gold
I have never thought of the hand and fingers as distinct entities. But what if you’re using the smartphone to converse with a real person and your heart beats faster? Isn’t that a bodily response?