Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Long before there was cable TV – and marathons of shows, e.g. America’s Top Models, or the complete Firefly series, or Sherlock or moviethons for Back to the Future….
Long before there were VHS tapes, DVDs, or blu-ray collections of entire series – Star Trek [TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise], Star Wars [with alternative viewing order], Upstairs Downstairs, Babylon 5,Once Upon a Time….
Long before there was NetFlix, Hulu or even YouTube – Orange is the New Black, Sense8,House of Cards….
There were books.
Long series of immersive adventures in a world that may or may not be long ago and/or far away or even plausible. Diving into a series was always one of the ways to take a vacation of the mind and spirit, which is why I have re-read Tolkien from the introduction of the Hobbit to the last Appendix in the Return of the King over and over again, for example. [Not to mention the series of Dune and Ender’s Game, and Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and theInheritance series and God is an Englishman and James Herriot’s musings and Anne of Green Gables and Little Women]
And one of the wonderful things about being an adult, and living alone, is that if I choose to read all day and into the night I can do so without fear of recriminations or even interruptions. This weekend I was on a planet the natives have named Darkover where being a ginger means you probably have laran and living without machines doesn’t mean being primitive.
Even though I am at my desk this Monday, my mind is definitely not here. And when I go home tonight, I will leave this mundane, workaday world sink back into this world created by Marion Zimmerman Bradley.
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