... Seven years later

I swear I haven't been playing Angry Birds and Words With Friends this whole time! I've also taken up Ruzzle and Pokemon Go.

I'm just here in Blogger to see about setting up some other blogs and I found this fragment.

Or maybe that Foray into the Mainstream really was a 7 year immersion. Time will tell.

Games

In the fall of 2011 I played Angry Birds. (I had previously noticed merchandising and had subsequently avoided it.)

It is a fun game. My kids liked it. There are some fun skill-building feelings that go along with it & it is habit-forming.

A day or two before the secular new year I began to play Zynga's Words with Friends. I enjoy it so much and have begun multiple games so that when I sit down I can play for almost as long as I wish. Sometimes all my opponents are away. I can choose to wait for one or more to return or I can begin a new game.

I am observing how this game can be a fun diversion or a strong draw towards turning outwards rather than within.

If I am going to explore the Mainstream this year, I must remember to consciously take time to meditate and go within to counterbalance this draw.