Tuesday Talking Points: "Taking the Tom Sawyer Approach"

No, I am not going to be talking about the books, although if you have not read them, let me say: GO DO SO NOW! What I AM going to talk about is an article I found in the Christian Science Monitor about a pair of friends who embraced simplicity.

If you’d like to read the article there will a link at the bottom of this post, but the gist is: Two friends decided to leave behind the busyness of society and just, float, down the Tennessee River on an inflatable raft. No cell phones, no iPods, no modern anything; just them, a guitar, a harmonica and a copy of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. (If this sounds like paradise to you, we should hang out more often because I totally agree.)

I just think it is really really cool that someone did this. I am in fact jealous. So I am not going to say anything else about it; I am just glad I could bring it to y’all today. It’s a happy story, and I encourage everyone to do all you can to just step away from the insanity of everyday life, slow down, and just float on the river for awhile.

Link to the Actual Story:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0921/p18s02-hfes.html