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Saturday, March 5, 2022

You've Got Mail (Messages) SOL#22

Those three dancing dots, and how do you describe that noise? Tick-a-tick-a-tick-a...plick-a-plick-a-plick-a? My high school friends and I are in an ongoing message thread. It flows and ebbs like the tide. Over the last few weeks, we have been in close contact due to a death which has saddened us all.

However, we are talking and chatting about logistics and classmates.  We're catching up on times missed and times remembered. We're celebrating the past and making plans for the future. It is restorative and relaxing and rewarding to read and write. We all work, but some of us work from home (within a few second's distance of a yearbook) and some are teachers or eye doctors who don't have a phone or laptop in front of them.

Tonight, one is missing. She momentarily jumped in at 6:00 to say, "my crazy sister-in-law has been around and never shuts up so it's been hard to concentrate on something as important as this convo!" I laughed out loud at the comment as we had been discussing the name of our history teachers through our high school years and the boys' basketball coaches. Hardly the important convo, but we do value each other and what she said makes that evident.

Today alone we have covered the high school teachers and coaches, tax preparations (even the two accountants have their taxes done by someone), college emails we wish we still had, in-laws that annoy us, boyfriends that do housework and husbands that might try to, hired house cleaners, and condos in Maui. The night is young, who knows where it might take us!

I love my girls, and I am so grateful to have these modern conveniences to connect with them!




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