I recall when the easiest way to communicate was to send a card or a letter to someone. I remember our Great Aunt Pat from Georgia who used to write to our Mom regularly - in pencil on thin white sheets of paper. Mom kept several of those letters and after the aunt had died we read them over and over. They were sweetly worded and ended with love to the family.
Lately I've joined a couple of what's popularly known as Social Networking websites. You can communicate online but it somehow doesn't feel the same as sitting down and writing an old fashioned letter to someone. It's easier to Tweet or Twitter or post to Facebook or MySpace than it is to sit down and write a personal letter to just one person. You can play games on some sites. Be a Farmer. Be a Mafioso. We're just grazing the surface when we send a 140 character notice about what we're doing. And the more online friends we have the less we have to work to keep in touch. Just post an update and go on to something else.
In a way, those letters from Aunt Pat were little treasures in time and space. A sharing of what was in her mind when she thought about us. She left a little legacy of love whenever she wrote to us.
Hey, I just want to say that I love you guys. Let me find a pen and some paper!
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Your words will be remembered by your family members and your audience of readers. Its easier for those of us on the run to reach for our phones and check our email etc. No, not while we are driving of course. Its not on paper or in your personal handwriting; however, it comes for your heart which is what we treasure. Its a nice surprise to open the mail box and find an envelope with our name addressed in the middle. Your right, its missing the personal touch.
I still have the gift that Aunt Pat gave Mommas when I was born. Her letters are such a window into time. Emails just evaporate, don't they?
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