Sunday, 3 June 2007
Farewell
I went to a farewell dinner last night with some writing and illustrating mates. It was a dual farewell...me off to Adelaide and another friend heading to England for two years. Two years is a long time, but somehow not as long as it once seemed. With email and web connections, communication can be as easy as if you were living next door. Not the same as meeting in the city for drinks and dinner, but much better than waiting for letters to travel by boat. We may have lost some of the elegance inherent in the artform that is/was letter-writing, but the wonderful immediacy of emails can be comforting. This is not to say that they will ever beat the anticipation that comes with the arrival of the postie bearing a fat envelope full of handwritten pages.
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The problem with email, is that you have to turn on the computer, which is a bit like work. However with a nice fat letter, you can read it on the toilet. Guess who? Lovely night out and I finally caught up with your blog. Hope you're having a great time. See you in two years.xxx
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