Treasuring the Past on Paper
Our internet age is amazing in so many ways. We have the answer to so many questions we have right at our fingertips. We can greet friends and strangers who live many miles away and dialogue with them about many topics. As exciting as these things may be we have lost what is at least as great a value. We used to send more cards and notes through the mail wishing friends a happy birthday or updating them on what is happening in our lives.Often such communication would be tucked away to be remembered another day. Today with our up to date technology such notes are gone in an instant. I have been blessed by living in both the age of notepaper as well as the age of quick notes that last a moment. Periodically I browse through old cards and notes from friends and relatives. I am often reminded of what is really important. Sometimes I find cards with an unexpected expression of affection. I rarely get to read what i might have written to these people. This note was an exception. I had been...