{"id":1023,"date":"2018-09-03T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellystigliano.com\/blog\/?page_id=1023"},"modified":"2018-09-03T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T03:05:43","slug":"taking-a-time-out","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kellystigliano.com\/blog\/taking-a-time-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Time Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Christian Communicator Magazine<\/em><\/p>

\u201cStupid internet is out again,\u201d I grumbled. Rocco looked up at me with all the concern a family dog could offer. He sighed and put his head back down on his feet.<\/p>

\u201cHumpf. You must work for the DSL company!\u201d<\/p>

How was I supposed to get my work done without the internet? I had research to do and Bible verses to verify. I had an assignment due and another deadline to meet.<\/p>

When my spell check lets me down, I typically key my butchered version into the internet search engine and get the correct spelling instantaneously.<\/p>

I tried three spellings of a word I was struggling with \u2013 nothing. Looking at the shelf above my computer I saw a large, familiar blue and red book. I grabbed the Webster\u2019s dictionary and blew the dust off in a little cloud. Giggling, I was amazed at how heavy it was. Had my arms grown weaker as my internet dependence had grown stronger?<\/p>

\u201cA real dictionary,\u201d I mused. \u201cImagine that.\u201d<\/p>

Within seconds I found the correcting spelling. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t too bad.\u201d<\/p>

Rocco just sighed. He was used to me babbling throughout the day. He\u2019d long since given up the desire to know if I was addressing him or not.<\/p>

I continued writing. \u201cI\u2019ve used that word too many times.\u201d My computer thesaurus didn\u2019t offer me what I was looking for. Again, looking up, I spotted Rodale\u2019s Synonym Finder<\/em>.<\/p>

Thumbing through the yellowed pages I realized that I\u2019d not used the book in . . . in . . . years! \u201cSo? I\u2019m not Wilma Flintstone,\u201d I rationalized.<\/p>

Needing some Bible verses, I instinctively tried to pull up Bible Gateway. Oh, I forgot.<\/em><\/p>

My dusty bookshelf held another gem. The Zondervan\u2019s Comparative Study Bible<\/em> that I\u2019d gotten for Christmas years ago had four versions inside. As I sat with all four in front of me, my eyes quickly swept from one to another.<\/p>

This is really sweet<\/em>, I pondered. I\u2019d forgotten the feel of a Bible on my lap as I researched verses. \u201cI love this!\u201d<\/p>

I wanted to reference a few old hymns. \u201cHmmm. Where did those old hymnals go, Rocco?\u201d I found three of them stacked in a decorative display in the living room. My books had become ornamental relics. How sad.<\/em><\/p>

I found what I needed in the hymn books and casually leafed through the pages, remembering singing the songs in church, before overhead screens became permanent fixtures in sanctuaries.<\/span><\/p>

Within two and a half hours I had completed the first draft of one article and the second draft of another. Then it hit me. I\u2019d accomplished more in just over two hours than I would normally have all morning. \u201cHow did that happen?\u201d<\/span><\/p>

I pushed my chair away from the desk, spun it around and relaxed into the high back. Staring at Rocco I silently rehearsed my morning.<\/p>

I\u2019d stopped writing to make a cup of tea. While making the tea I had gone through my coupons, re-written my shopping list, ate a yogurt, held the empty container while Rocco licked it clean, used the restroom, greeted the exterminator at the front door, opened the side gate for him to perform his quarterly killing treatment, locked the gate after he left, updated my Day-Timer, sang a few old songs, refilled the toilet paper in both bathrooms, used the restroom again, and held these heavy books that were collecting dust on my shelf. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cImagine that, Rocco, my little dinosaur!\u201d<\/p>

I\u2019ll bet Wilma Flintstone was an incredibly productive woman! She didn\u2019t have the internet for research, but she also didn\u2019t have the distraction of e-mail, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, an endless supply of articles and blogs that required immediate reading, or an on-line Bible that could take her from trunk to branch tip of study as the clock ticked away.<\/p>

\u201cWhat next, Dino? I guess I\u2019ll get back to that manuscript I\u2019ve been working on. Yubba-dubba-do!\u201d<\/p>

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