Home & Technology

Just returned from a conference on violence prevention. Hubby is away on a mission trip where there is no water or electricity. I feel so disconnected. Realizing even more how dependent we have become on technology and in the same instant I am resentful and grateful. Angry that I am dependent on it, grateful that we have it. When I was in my hotel room and couldn't get my cell phone to turn back on I literally panicked. No one could reach me without that. I was terrified for a few moments, until I took out the battery, banged the phone on the table, and all those ridiculous things we try when something won't work. Needless to say I could have picked up the phone in the room and called my family, but it was that sense of being so disconnected that was anxiety producing. I looked up the T-mobile phone numbers in the phone book, of course having no idea if any of them were close to where I was in the strange city...once I got it going again I did not turn it off until I came home last night. I haven't tried to turn it on yet today.

Coming home was such a relief. I had a great trip, met lots of wonderful people from around the world, but felt so good being at home. Running into my niece in the grocery store was a wonderful blessing because all of sudden I felt connected again...someone I really knew was right there. These are wierd thoughts, but I am so grateful for having family and home and realizing how very special their presence is in my life. There really is "no place like home".