I\u2019ve just written birthday cards to friends and relatives and I realized that these may be among the last few score or hundred that I ever write. If you\u2019re not in email contact with my descendants, you\u2019re \u201cout of it,\u201d literally. Postal mail, greeting cards, are going the way of penguins and parrots. It may take a few generations, but they\u2019re toast. <\/p>\n
The world is changing and the changing process is speeding up. I have been privileged to be in the transition generation. Letter-writing, card-writing? Obsolete! I can barely see it, but it\u2019s already happening. If my personal outreach to you has been lacking, sorry. People are forgetting my anniversaries of events, birthdays, whatever, and I\u2019ve been forgetting theirs. It used to be more of a \u201cthing\u201d but has become less so.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m aware that I\u2019m living near the beginning of the email age, and those without access to email, or knowledge how to use it, are obsolete\u2014if human beings can be said to be obsolete. Well, let\u2019s get on with it then!<\/p>\n
Dear Friends and Acquaintances,
Welcome to the Email Age. You have email and a capacity to peer into people\u2019s blogs, so that\u2019s something. Others without that know-how to communicate with you lose out. Alas, but that\u2019s the way it goes.
You are welcome to correspond with me… or not. My life is winding up and you may never hear from me again. Soon I will go through my many thousands of contacts and begin weeding out. Those who are slightly intrigued can look me up and read my blog. They can say, \u201cI looked you up on your blog. We haven\u2019t corresponded in, like, forever…\u201d and say what they want to say, and I may follow up. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m winding down and wrapping up\u2014it\u2019ll take me months, years, to do this. Meanwhile, I\u2019m de-cathecting, I\u2019m withdrawing my emotional investment in one thing after another. I don\u2019t care that much about a whole raft of things, and I care little about some, although I do care very much again about another whole raft. Haha. <\/p>\n
Well, more anon. If you read this and are motivated to contact me, do so. If not, alas, but then again, no sweat. Goodbye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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