Hello out there! Are you there? Just let me know you're OK. Please!!
The other day I had three active text message chains blinking on my phone. Three different people were communicating with me at the same time — and I was keeping up. Just. I was monitoring their responses, composing my own, keying them in, sending, and waiting for the next reply. All the while marvelling at what texting enables us to do. Too much, maybe, but sometimes it’s kind of fun. I don’t always like juggling so many communication balls in the air, but that morning I was well caffeinated and enjoying the challenge — a nd keeping the three different chains separate and clear one from the other, which isn’t always the case. But today it was. I’m a communicator. I like connecting with people, having conversations, making meaning with others, sometimes making plans, often merely keeping the thread of relationship alive between us. A quick text asking, ‘How is it going over there?’ or ‘Awful weather today, isn’t it!’ is enough for that. Which is why I am perplexed wh...