1964. I had been
away from home for almost two years, and overseas for more than one.
Judy’s 16th birthday present from her family was a three-minute,
person to person, very expensive, phone call to me. Three minutes.
That’s a lot of pressure to make it count. Otherwise, our only contact
was handwritten letters, which could take a week or two each way.
2022. England.
Ireland. Texas. York, Cork, and Edinburg. Five thousand
miles, six time-zones apart. The weekly zoom visit with the girls carried
off without a hitch.
An
I-pad, a computer, and a telephone. An
hour-long visit? No problem. No pressure.
Real-time video and verbal communication. What a charming time we live in.
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