MAKING SPACE FOR SACRED TIME

A woman sits in a park in New York, laughing with a friend in Tokyo using video technology on her smartphone. Her body is in New York, yet her voice is in Japan. The two friends discuss life, loves, and sorrows as though they were sitting in the park together. Computer technology has conquered the whopping 10,871 km distance between New York and Tokyo; it has shrunk it to zero. In the modern world, we have somehow managed to lose space.

In her book, , Anne Helen Petersen, a millennial herself, describes what she calls “errand paralysis”, or the inability to get