The World Is Speeding Up and I Want to Get Off

 I live in Silicon Valley where everyone is free to invent and innovate and yet I feel like a Luddite at times.  I still prefer to talk to people face to face rather than on the phone.  I like to get letters and cards in the mail.  I use e-mail for work but lately I've been texting more.  And with the new smart phones being used by all and sundry  it feels like the world is moving at warp speed and I am pelting along behind it the way I hang on to my dog, Lance, when he is determined to catch  the neighbor dog up the block. 

Don't get me wrong, I use all these wonderful ways of communicating.

And then I play my guitar and time seems to stop. 

So what is that about?