Welcoming the gifts of boredom

Leave the phone behind and go for a walk

Photo by Magnet.me on Unsplash

Several years ago I did something that many of my friends, and my spouse, said was insane: I packed our two very young kids in our family car, pointed west for a 17-day drive from upstate New York to my hometown in Montana, and told the kids that as long as we were in the car, no screens were allowed. No Kindle, no iPad. No games, no movies, no audio books. None of us…