Finding Meaning In The Mundane

     One of the longtime readers of this blog paid me the ultimate compliment in a recent email. He said I was able to find meaning in the mundane things that occurred in our childhood lives. If that doesn't hit the nail on the head I don't know what does.

     Those childhood lives were much more mundane than our current hyper-connected times. We experienced long periods, especially in August, which were hot and boring. During August there were few thoughts about the upcoming school firedrills or anything similar to the current day active shooter incidents, except for the Texas Tower Incident in 1966. Though it's hard to draw a parallel to the shooting at the University of Texas in Austin to all the school shootings we have seen in the last twenty years. We have almost grown numb to these horrific occurances. I'd gladly take those dull sweltering August days anytime, if I didn't ever have to hear about another person shooting up somebody's school yard.