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The poet, Mary Oliver, has long sung to me with her elegant and spare use of words. Regarding attention, Mary Oliver wrote "To pay attention is our endless and proper work." Endless and proper work - in my experience, those few words contain multitudes. Other than what I pay attention to, there's not a heck of a lot I can really control in this life. I may set an intention with the conviction that I am in charge of my trajectory, though causes and conditions usually determine outcomes more than any hardheaded or steely resolve on my part. Witness the ongoing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic! While much of life may well be beyond any of our individual control, the ability to volitionally direct attention remains not only under our control, but is our endless and proper work . As part of this endless and proper work, I recently deleted the most time and energy sucking apps from my various devices. It was easy to bid adieu to Facebook and Instagram, though much harder to