Another Broken Glass

Happy Veterans Day! I used to wish that to my grandfather before he passed away in 2019. He’s the same grandfather I started drinking coffee in honor of; to which I am now very know for…LOL I switched to wishing a Happy Memorial Day to my grandmother in honor of Grandpa. But I’m not sure if that is correct? He gave up 4 years of his civilian life. But he did not lose his entire life to service. So, perhaps I should still celebrate him on Veterans Day? Or both? Or everyday…hehehe

One thought I had was that those who died in service never became veterans. Those who survived their service all become veterans. We still remember them on Memorial Day, of course, after they pass from this life for all of the other reasons they died after serving. But these are just some things a day like today gets me thinking about.

This week’s Bible study got me to thinking about writing more again. As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry, I haven’t been writing to process my thoughts at all lately. I even stopped my handwritten journaling. I haven’t written any poems aside from the weekly Humpty Dumpty Tales. And I even took a break from Bible study and sketching. It has been a few weeks at least since I’ve taken a moment to process much of what’s on my mind.

I went down a rabbit hole of thought last night that led to me breaking yet another glass. Unaware of where my body was, I knocked right into the glass I use to measure my coffee grounds and it tumbled to the floor in slow motion. I could mentally see it crash and disburse its shiny shards across the surface of my kitchen floor. My brain mapped out each shard as they glided across the floor; which made it super easy to clean up. I’ve gotten really good a cleaning up broken glass. That also means, I’ve gotten really bad at not breaking glass…LOL

“Rabbit hole” is probably the incorrect metaphor for the depths of my thoughts, though. I grew up with literal rabbit holes in my childhood back yard. That was before my dad had the lawn treated. Back in those days, he had us kids do all of the weeding in the yard. In today’s day and age, social media would call that child abuse…LOL Since the lawn was natural in every way, wildlife was common. Well, rabbit holes are very shallow. They are nothing like the one in “Alice in Wonderland.” At least, in a small town in central Indiana, that is…LOL

By the way, I do not like lawn care day at my apartment complex (today)…*sigh*

The deep thought that concluded with broken glass was about mobile phones, of all things. I had seen a Reddit post about one of those new phones with a physical keyboard. As much as I’d love one, I recently got a new phone. So, I’m not in the market, as it were. But it did trigger an entire universe of “scenes” that included “conversations” about Apple vs Google vs this no name brand that made a phone with a keyboard. In the conversations, I was defending my views and opinions of all of these technologies. Despite the loss of a very useful glass, I was able to conclude that someday I’ll likely go back to a physical phone keyboard, should they still exist the next time I get a new phone…LOL You know, if I don’t change my mind again later…LOL (I’m already considering going back to iPhone…LOL)