Is life becoming more complex, or what? I don’t know about you, but I’m needing some simplicity to offset that complexity.

I’m looking out at some of you: we have in our midst some people who are tech-savants, up-to-the-nanosecond in every new app and digital advance, every new social media minutia; and we have in our midst some “off-the-grid,” computer-phobic, techno-anaphylactic Luddites.

And then there are the rest of us, the most of us the in-betweeners.

But whoever you are, we can agree on one thing: our twenty-first century lives are amazingly complex.

Every day we live in these soon-to-be teenage years of the 21st century, we use skills that would befuddle previous generations. Driving computers masquerading as cars. Using microwave ovens. Functioning simultaneously in different…