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Mom – I was laying in bed enjoying
the early morning sunshine on my legs and thinking about you and the magic of
media and I’ve got the feeling that this letter will get thru to you. When we lived in different states, I ALWAYS
wrote at least once a week, even just a postcard, to let you know we were OK. That was back when stamps cost three cents
and we wouldn’t have dreamed of calling, we only used long distance phone for
bad news or maybe really great news.
Your picture is on the wall,
right over my computer, and well, I just gotta tell you about what all is
happening now and I think my letter will get thru to you. Do you remember when I first got a
computer? I didn’t want to give up my
typewriter. And I durned sure didn’t
want to bother about learning something new.
I had just retired, had books in my head to write, my wonderful IBM was
so much better than the old manual portable Remington that I had used for
years, leave me alone.
When the big monster Epson machine
with two slots for floppies appeared on my desk I wrote you my first letter on
it. I said, “Mom, don’t mind the
mistakes, these keys are so much lighter to touch and I don’t know how to erase
yet.” Those were ftp days, before html
and www. Go back to the late 1980s, not
even thirty years ago.
It had to be magic. I could send letters to my sister and
brothers without buying stamps. The
family kept in touch so much better. Now
my computer has shrunk so small it can be hidden underneath a file folder. And now these carry around telephones have
cheap minutes. And I just have to tell
you what I did yesterday.
Would you believe – I held
my little phone in my hand and sent a picture to everyone. With my telephone! It’s called a cell phone. Now this is really magic.
Our great grand kids don’t have the amazement that I do because they take
all this new mystical stuff for granted. My son took away my IBM. My grandson
insists that sending a picture thru space doesn’t need a miracle. And my great grandchildren believe that what appears
as voo-dooism to me is part of life.
Well, here’s one for
them. Mom, last Sunday several of our “senior
ciizens” went over to the Japanese Festival.
A friend took a picture of me and sent it thru space to me. And I’m passing it on to you. I know you would want to see it and somehow,
with all these miracles I can’t believe, there has to be a way to send you my picture.
It always makes me happy
when a penny appears in unexpected places and I know it is from you and you are
being my guardian angel. I love
you, Mom. All is well here. sending lots
of hugs and kisses, xoxoxoxo, Mariam
#mariamcheshire #thealternatesafeworldofsanctuary #myrt-ty-ky-ly
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