Dueling Blogs

Just read my eldest’s latest blog in reply to my picnic blog. It wet his appetite for a picnic, but then read it for yourself.
Blogging between family members creates a new level of chatting – messaging. Not only that but it is the tie that binds.

Our four adult children live in Georgia, California, Illinois and Wisconsin. We are miles from those places in the northwest part of Arkansas. With the cost of gas spiraling upward, reaching the sky, can be deadening to a family. Before phones, the mail carried words between family members. Then the phone came on the horizon. What splenderific news was shared over the wires as family members became mobil.

Then came email. Ahhh…the joy of email that eliminates the deadening game of phone tag. With the advent of the dial-up, the sound became something you could hear as you raided the refrigerator or took a bathroom break. The ultimate came when instant on method of emailing through cable or ethernet means that the number of emails has becme exponential. Add to that the spam and the constant forwards and you have a truly wordy culture.

Sometimes I like to imagine that the voices of those in ancient worlds still circle the globe via vibrations. Our words have clutched at a different medium and the communication is deafening. Do I de-cry this way of cementing family ties. Oh, no. I find each blog of two of our family truly edifying. In their writing I see them as they grew up. My little children.

Yes, the spiraling cost of gasoline can make a person’s heart quiver when you simply want a hug from your children, but somehow words can create that same closeness.
Of course, when my daughter writes to the world that due to flylady.net, I am now making my bed….. Sigh….. Now just what does our eldest mean …..My mother, a self-educated Internet denizen, has taken to Blogging.
Wait! I can find out. I have a dictionary bookmarked….An inhabitant; a resident.

Now I know. Dan was the one who slept with a large unabridged dictionary beside his bed because of his interest in words. Could you say he that he denizened a dictionary? No, I guess that doesn’t sound right.

All I can say is, Blog on Family…I love you all,
Mom