Say the word tether and I'll bet you think of an animal tied up with a rope.
In radio we were all so happy to go wireless with a lot of our equipment and it was so freeing not having cables and cords. However, it is not without issues because sometimes the connection just doesn't make it and sometimes that line or tether creates the best and clearest sound. It is dependable to have a tether in electronics.
It is practical in other parts of life as well.
There are some tethers that I sometimes miss. I miss the old fashioned phone cord tether. Yes, the phones that you couldn't walk all over the place with but rather had to sit your fanny down and actually talk to someone. A conversation. No one calls me anyone just to talk, they'd rather text or FB, constantly attached to that electronic tether.
There are times when I feel I have some attention problems but concentrating sometimes just isn't creative. I play through all of these thoughts on a recent run in the neighborhood near our radio station. I run past a cemetery, now those folks are surely tethered. I think about how we had a leash law in Colorado Springs for our dogs, tethered. Tethered for the dog's safety and everyone else too. You wouldn't want to have to worry about a dog bite when you're out for a run or walk, right. Tethered.
We come into this world tethered to our moms and the cord must be cut. We are tethered to our families until we go out into this big bright world alone, cord cut....tether gone.
Now I feel as though another tether has been cut or is certainly on its way to be cut. Peanut got her driving learner's permit this week and she's that much closer to being gone. So much Mama sadness realizing it is just closer every day.
Making reference to the radio paragraph above, sometimes when the tether is gone the signal is lost. But also with families and relationships too. When there is no longer something holding us in place we must actually work harder to stay connected. I feel like we should do a better job at making those connections as if there is a tether. Make them clear, strong, dependable!
~Anne Taylor
