I am only now beginning to recover fully from my recent flurry of meetings and responsibilities. I moved from Holy Week to wedding preparations in Baltimore to the Alliance of Baptists board meeting to the annual Convocation to the post-Convocation children and youth ministers retreat. All of these events were good, but moving straight through without a break disrupted any semblance of rountine.

It is difficult to eat right, exercise, or pray when traveling. And, more than anything else, all of the meetings were relentless -- one after another after another. I was so saturated that I didn't have the energy to carve out time and space for an inner work.

It's good to break-up the rountine occasionally, but I'm really glad to be back home -- especially at my house where there is no Internet and no cable TV.

On the other extreme, I was reading in yesterday's New York Times that psychiatry professor at Harvard has coined the phrase, "'acquired attention deficit disorder' to describe the condition of people who are accustomed to a constant stream of digital stimulation and feel bored in the absence of it. Regardless of whether the stimulation is from the Internet, TV or a cellphone, the brain...is hijacked." I hope I never commit to a job that requires me to have a blackberry. I don't want to be tethered to the office.

For now, one of my growing edges continues to be how to incorporate contemplative practices into travel and meetings.