CSotD: Speaking of which

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1. ronnie

   “…between email, Facebook and blogging, I’m as much in touch with nearly everyone I know as if we all lived in a dormitory.”
   I had the exact same experience writing Christmas cards this year. There was no point in chatty little notes because nearly everyone I was sending them to knows pretty much everything that’s gone on in the last year between email and my blog. I just opened one from an older foster sibling who lives out west that included one of the much-maligned “holiday letters”, for which I was enormously grateful because our interactions are limited pretty much to – Christmas card exchanges. Everybody else, especially the e-friends I’m in regular context with, got a “Merry Christmas and all the best in 2011”, which felt oddly brief and formal but which was really all that was necessary.
   However I am moved to make sure I write my foster brother a longer letter after Christmas and update him on our lives, for reals. Snail-mail relationships are hard, but reading his holiday letter made me realize how out-of-touch I was with him and his family and how worth it it is to make the effort.