Just some thoughts written mid-flight

I mindfully set out to write diligently with a weekly update. Ambitious is an understatement. Sometimes my desire and the reality just does not meet up. It has been weeks and there is just no way I can afterthought “the Between” entirely. Here we are on the first leg of our first of two flights. I am desperately trying to think of how to summarize the hysteria of the last four weeks. Here is my best shot and a reason why I even bother. I heartfully care about everyone I keep in contact with and even many whom I can not. However, having three children is consumptive and sometimes at the end of the day, I just have no more of myself to give. I am saddened by this fact sometimes in the wee hours of the morning when I awake and remember that I missed a call to someone dear. At first thought, I worry that they may feel forgotten or unimportant. You are not and it‘s my hope that everyone knows my heart is full of love for each and every one of my dear friends and *family. My days and nights are also full. I do my best but, sometimes at the end of the day… there are just not enough hours or seconds. I hate the term “Busy”, it has become this simple and easy term most use nowadays to mean… big fat BLOW-OFF in a cowardly kind-of way. I try not to be that person. In our culture everyone makes time for what is most important to them. We can admit that, right?  We are only as busy as what is truly important to us. Facebook has become an amazing tool, email, text messaging and all those devices. There is no excuse and I try hard not to make them. It means a lot to me to keep in close (as close as I can manage) contact with those I cherish. Thank you to soooo many for your patience and tenacity.

On to a new subject… texting and cell phones with our teens. Geez, can they hold a real conversation? Nope, seems not. I can’t believe my eyes. Each ad every young person buried in their cell phones. Walking, texting, talking on the phone in the middle of a hugely crowded room, wow. It scares me to think that in twenty years these may be our leaders. Yikes. The video that went viral of that lady in the Mall texting herself right over the edge into the fountain. Ya, that makes total sense now that I have been surrounded by a bunch of teens. Seems to reason, that is the new norm. No true reality. Heads just buried in a little typing device completely oblivious that real life is going on all around them in flesh. Type, stare, send, completely detached from what is going on in their immediate surroundings. And to see their written text. Oh geez, it is like trying to read ancient Hyrogliphics. What a shame. The English language is being slaughtered in what appears to be cartoon chicken scratch. Ugh. Frustrating.

Maybe I am just over social. But, I simply think that the world around has every bit of education we all need to learn. We just need to connect, listen and be kind to one another.