keeping in touch

How things have changed.

During my teenage years I kept daily diaries, recording almost exclusively mundane daily events and lacking any interesting insights apart from the odd "that boy is fab". I recently browsed through one - searching for  confirmation of a date and one thing did really strike me - letters! My diaries are full of "had a letter from....." "wrote a letter to ......", several almost every week. When away from home I wrote to my parents and to my brother and sisters, each of them separately, and when we moved house I wrote to friends. We had no telephone in the house and of course email and social media were not even dreamt of but it seems I made up for it.

As the years passed I stopped writing my diaries and eventually the letters except for some at Christmas time. These days  I am really glad to have social media  - its so easy to keep in touch with family and friends, especially important when like us you live a long way off. An exchange of photos, a shared giggle, a supportive message - all help keep friendship alive and keep family ties. I also enjoy the "diary" created with facebook - often as mundane as my teenage scribbles but also full of good memories.

So a thank you to all of my on-line friends and family for keeping in touch.