Jean Guerrero: I stayed off social media for just one week and rediscovered awe
When my iPhone stopped working earlier this month, I spent an hour trying to fix it before I gave up. I scheduled the earliest-available appointment at an Apple store the next morning and resigned myself to a day without my device.
As I drove around to various errands, I awoke to details of the real world that I'd long ago stopped noticing: the faces of strangers in cars behind me at traffic stops, my steering wheel's leather, the ethereal whiteness of ordinary clouds.
Without social media to occupy me at all times, my mind went
