The Sacrament of Paying Attention: Meditations on Living

We all feel it: We scroll and scroll, and then we surface from our screens hollowed out, unsure of what we have just consumed or why. We sit across from people we love and find our minds elsewhere. We intend to read, to pray, to simply rest inside our own thoughts, and instead we reach, again, for a bright rectangle that promises everything yet delivers a kind of sleep.

Into this digital dusk, Cameron Bellm delivers something like first light.

What if attention were measured not by quantity ...