I still love this hymn…

When I was a member at Our Savior Lutheran in Houston, on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday… They would sing a farewell to alleluia. They used a tune that I loved, but could not place.

Here it is. I still love it, and now I know what it is.

How Shallow *IS* My Thinking Becoming?

I thought it was just me!

I thought that maybe I'm beginning to age. I thought that maybe I was worried or distracted. While I wasn't really worried, I've noticed that I am developing the attention span of a squirrel on crack cocaine.

I don't know if I can make it all the way through "War and Peace" anymore. (Not that I was able to anyhow… Reading it in paper was a huge challenge even when I was strong enough to hold paperbacks. I tried in high school, but it was to heavy-crushing my chest!) I even got bored reading Buzz Aldrin's "MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION," though. I never thought that would happen! It's BUZZ ALDRIN!!! It's about walking on the moon! Talk about a Lisa -book, the only thing missing is Klingon poetry!

I was enjoying the book, but…

Then another book landed in my lap! Nicholas Carr wrote an interesting work called, "The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains."   It is an expansion of an article he wrote in Atlantic, "Is Google Making Us Stupid." (It might be… I didn't have the attention span to finish reading the 2008 article.)

So far, I am thoroughly enjoying the book. Mr. Carr goes into some neuroscience, some history, some literature info… He isn't going to bore me that way! Even for someone with the attention span of a squirrel on crack, this has enough topics to interest to me.

So… Do you think it is possible that we (human beings) are becoming shallower and more incapable of THOUGHT because we spend so much time bouncing around from idea to idea to idea…