About a month or so ago, JT sent me an email with four places for a little mini-family getaway. We’d been to a few on the list but ultimately, I didn’t care where we went so long as it was just the four of us. So, we opted for a new adventure and...
I’ve been feeling this way for weeks … …that I am so very connected and yet, I don’t feel connected much at all. The world of FaceBook and Blogs and Texts and Instagram, well, to me, I feel like it is actually hurting connections. Instead of talking to people about their lives — it...
We could kill a bottle of wine and wax on about this topic. This goes hand in hand with that “community” you know I craved for so long. I do think I’ve found what I was looking for, though, and it is separate from technology. I think you will find more connection as Sabrina starts school and your circle closes in a bit so that you are seeing the same smaller groups more frequently. I am conflicted on it all, too, because, to be brutally honest, I don’t know that I want to feel as connected as some people do. It comes with lots of strings attached and I am an introvert. That connection comes with regular encounters — like neighbor wine-in-the-driveway weeklies, or chatting in the gymnastics lobby, or seeing the same people at church each week or weekly Bible study. It can also come with email / fb exchanges, but there has to be a two-side conversation for it to happen. So, there’s my novel of the day. In summary: “How are you? We should get together soon!”
Amanda, I really liked what your friend said and the questions she asked.
Wow! I love that!
To say I was emotional about Sabrina’s preschool graduation is a *slight* understatement. It was such a fun ceremony and I choked back tears the entire time. I just can’t believe that she’s going to start Kindergarten in the fall! And I can’t believe this wonderful year has gone by so quickly. We were so...