05/17/2025
It’s pretty silly, in the grand scheme — to be reliant on these devices — these “smart” phones. But man, I sure am.
I started my business from my kitchen table on my Android S3. Yes, S3! I did not have a computer, laptop or iPad and no means of acquiring anything more sophisticated! Keeping things simple proved to be a pretty successful way for me to manage everything, though until this past Monday… when, for the first time ever, I lost my office phone.
Lost.
Gone.
Vanished.
Tuesday came and I looked here, there, everywhere! You need a pony tail holder? I found about ten! How about quarters or candy wrappers from the depths of hell, I mean — under the car seats? I reached out to my colleagues with clairvoyance, “Can you help?” I asked, but to no avail.
She was lost.
I decided to give it ‘till Saturday before I officially declared a “Time of Death.” The hands of the clock ticked forward with an echo in an otherwise silent office the remainder of the week. No tweets! No chimes!
My sister suggested that I take a break. “You’re too close to it! Walk away!”
She was right.
Just after my daughter and I had emptied the FREEZER, (Could I have absentmindedly left it there!?) I stepped outside to sit on my bench and guess what?
There she was. There. She. Was!!!
Sonovagun.
She had fallen out of my shorts while I was gardening and had been in the RAIN AND STORMS all week!
A reunion of biblical proportions ensued as she rested, comfortably, in a bag of my best Basmati rice overnight to awaken today, FULLY CHARGED and ready to get back to work again.
She was right here, all along. Waiting for me to go through the gamet of emotions. A smart phone, indeed.
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