Hello… Perhaps it’s time to get back on the Grid with my blog. Over the past two years, Facebook has been my primary way to stay in touch with family and friends. I will still be on Facebook, but over the past several months, and especially last fall, it has become increasingly too political (among other issues)… so my involvement has become ever more limited. Plus there’s the fact that Facebook has a lot of issues that many friends don’t want to deal with. Facebook does have the benefit of two way communication while my blog is only one way communication… so I guess I’ll use a bit of both. One benefit of a blog, is that many of our friends that are not on Facebook, can follow our adventures on the blog… and stay in touch with two older forms of communication… E-mail and telephone. Then there’s always the ancient invention of hand written letters via postal mail. For the younger folks, and to refresh the memories of older folks, “letters” were actually hand written on paper (or cards) with a writing utensil like a pencil or pen. The document was placed inside an envelope, addressed to whom you wanted to send it to, postage applied, and then mailed. Several days later, someone received a special hand written letter to brighten their day. Kinda hard to believe that not too long ago, hand written letters was the only way to communicate other then in person…. before electronic communication via computers, and before the telephone… which looking back at phones, were unbelievably house bond to physical wires. Of course there was the telegraph way back in history that was the bridge between the written letter and the “wired” telephone. BTW… do they even have pay phones any more? … or has they slipped into the realm of ancient artifacts?
Anyway… watch for future entries to my blog while we share new adventures and catch up on new ones. Aside from staying in touch with old and new friends… one of my underlying reasons for having a blog is to have my grand kids, sometime later as they get older, to have the ability to read about me and my life… and perhaps get to know me in a wider sense. There are many things that I didn’t know about my parents as they grew up, and even less about grand parents, and only bits and pieces beyond them. So perhaps my blog will serve to convey information well beyond my life. Perhaps as a positive influence. That would make me feel better knowing that I would be thought of long after I’m gone… and not just be a vague memory, or an unknown great grand parent.
So, thanks for reading, and watch for new entries a time goes on. Stay happy and enjoy life.
And to quote a famous person from the future… Live long, and prosper.
