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<p>Hello from the parking lot of the Rte 3 McDonald&#8217;s in Loudonville, Ohio. This is where I can connect to the internet while we are staying at the cabins at Mohican State Park for a family reunion on my wife&#8217;s side of the family.</p>



<p>In a way, it serves as a family reunion on my side of the family because much of my family is buried less than a mile from here, on a beautiful hill that overlooks much of this side of town. Later this week I&#8217;ll spend an hour up there, as I usually do, talking to gravestones and remembering.</p>



<p>There might be no better place than at a cabin with no internet access to read the book I brought, How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. It&#8217;s a brilliant book about the art of doing nothing. I appreciate that she clearly distinguishes between &#8220;dropping out&#8221; in the traditional definition of doing nothing. Instead, she gives examples of the ways that 60&#8217;s hippies and Epicurus dropped out, and emphasizes the lessons learned.</p>



<p>I love that, as of a quarter of the way through, she has not lost sight of the fact that we need each other in a larger, more collective way than we generally acknowledge. It is hard to reconcile that with the need to put down our devices. Faces, not screens. We must remember that.</p>



<p>I must remember that.</p>



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<p>This week I wrote about one of the actions I have taken to help get myself unstuck from the quarantine. You can use it for yourself to get unstuck from pretty much anything &#8211; a rut you&#8217;re in, a bad feeling you need to work through, or a need to escape from your reality. Learn a game. Specifically this week I talk about ;<a href="https://thebestwordsllc.com/get-unstuck-learn-sudoku-or-a-different-new-game/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">my recent affair with sudoku</a>.</p>



<p>I hope you&#8217;ll read it, or at least skim it. And then go play a game of sudoku &#8211; I provide ;<a href="https://thebestwordsllc.com/get-unstuck-learn-sudoku-or-a-different-new-game/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">several links for places to do that in my article</a>.</p>



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<p>This website is fun. ;<a href="https://app.convertkit.com/campaigns/6451510/www.pointerpointer.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.pointerpointer.com</a>​</p>



<p>I&#8217;m not going to describe it, I just encourage you to go. I promise amusement, nothing more, nothing less.</p>



<p>Below, I&#8217;m including a picture of my Monday morning office.</p>



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<p>I look forward to seeing you when I return to civilization.</p>



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<p>Behind my head, a McDonald&#8217;s. Behind that, and up a hill, the Loudonville cemetery.</p>



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2021.6.14 The Best Words Weekly – Get Unstuck: Learn Sudoku
