Sunday, November 1, 2008
I enjoy sending and receiving email. It is as goo
d as receiving a letter in the mail, a skill that is quickly being lost in America, I fear. I keep a letter-writing correspondence with my cousin Marillyn from New Orleans because I cherish her style of written news. Her notes are always looked forward to with relish, then read over and over again. I have most of the ones she has ever written me.
I prefer her letters to a phone call from her. I'd rather write her a letter than telephone her, any day! I have a phone-phobia. Now I really enjoy talking on the phone, but initiating the phone call is very difficult for me. I get knots in my stomach; my hands get sweaty; I make all sorts of excuses to avoid making the call. Now that does not make any sense to me (or anyone else, probably)...it never has; but, it is the truth. I had twinges of it as a teenager, but as I have aged, it has become worse. As a teacher, I had to make many calls to parents from time to time; I loved busy signals or no answers. Answering machines were a blessing; somehow I could talke to one of those much more easily. Well, now you know a deep dark truth about me...and Fred insists I own a cell phone, as if I care that I am constantly connected to the world!
But now email...that's a whole different thing...I enjoy writing letters, notes, quips, epistles, etc. Email fits right into that genre. That is a type of expression that is close to my heart...written expression. Perhaps it's why I finally accepted Kelly's, Amanda's, and Shelley's challenge to start a blog: it allows me to express
myself in the media I enjoy most...writing. I am verbose! I love finding the right word for the correct content. Adjectives are a delight...those chuncky soup sentences I used to teach my students to create...or at least try to teach them to create.
Photography is also a boon to writing. What I cannot express in verbage can spill out into pictures. A good camera is so important to me, and even now I am looking to learn how to use a SLR digital. When I have my mind made up that I really can do it, I'll work on my budget enough to squirrel away the $800 or so for a good one to learn the skills. Right now I am using a Fuji FinePix 5700...it's good but not as good as it predecessor, a FinePix 5000. I wore it out with over 36,000 pictures and several disasterous drops. Fred has a lovely SLR digital that he is learning to use, but that is HIS and I generally do not feel welcomed to use his cameras. Considering the dropsy factor of my 5000, I understand.
Today is bulb digging day. Augie ben Dawgie, my miniature schnauzer, will be leashed out front as
I begin to dig the amaryllis bulbs in the front bed. They are long overdue digging, as they have begun to crowed each other out and grow on top of the ground. They've gone from 90-100 stalks to maybe 40 stalks of blooms this year. They must be dug and set back into the ground or we will lose them. The weather is 
perfect; I have my new shovel and small gardening tools; now I must get my ample derrière 
2 comments:
Nancy, I used to be so good about writing "real" letters, but for so many people, I have turned to e-mail correspondence. I am much better on the telephone now then I was as a teenager, of course, 90% of the time, I'm talking to one of my kids. It is so nice to be able to communicate with friends and family, no matter what the method.
How nice to see a picture of Marilyn, I'm not sure that I've ever seen her. Did you know that in your photo of you taking the photo of the aquarium there, you have a lovely picture of a fish who is posing for the camera? LOL! Its very good - he looks excited.
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