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That cake is brilliant!

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Suitably homemade 😂🙌

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A lovely post and so reflective. I remember eagerly waiting the birthday post to come when I grew up and racing to the door when it arrived. Now of course most of my wishes are via texts and I miss that excitement/ anticipation of waiting.

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Thank you so much 🌿🙏 I still run to the door every day for the post! It’s not usually very exciting these days though.

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Such a thought provoking piece David. I have the same battle with technology and the same discussions with my husband and my dad. I grew up in a time where the landline was connected by a cable to the wall. Our first tv was black and white, and there were just three channels. Computers were just being introduced to schools as I left.

Whilst some forms of technology are fantastic, i.e. Substack, email and occasionally social media, we have lost a lot. I agree with you about communication. Despite the forms of communication we have at our fingertips now, we seem less connected to our (in real life) friends, and distant families. On a plus though, our ability to meet new people and new friends is so much easier, especially for the introverts among us. I met my husband on-line.

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Yes, lots of challenges! But plenty of joys to be found online too. That’s where Clementine and I met too!

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Oh that’s amazing 😊

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One thing I am thankful to technology for, is that it brought you and me together. 🥰❤️ Even if we did have to have our first date on Zoom! 😅

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Yes! ❤️❤️❤️🥰

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Thank you for sharing David. I always value how you share moments of your life so that we can ponder for ourselves some of the questions of what it means to be alive, to be human and how to live well.

Loved the typewriter birthday cake! Xxx

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Thank you so much ✨🌿

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I miss receiving handwritten letters. My grandmother and I used to exchange letters when I was a child and continuing on when I was a teenager.

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Great thoughts from a wise young man💕

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Lovely read, David, and I agree about the cards and letters. I still have letters my grandmother wrote to me when I was at university and, even more special, letters my grandparents wrote to each other during WW2. I still love receiving handwritten cards and letters although I can’t remember the last time I received a handwritten letter and the cards dwindle by the year. I know I’ve stopped sending Christmas cards because the cost of stamps just made it ridiculous for something that was going to end up in the recycling in a matter of weeks. 😞

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Those letters are so special and precious ✨🌿

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Lovely reflection on tecnology. ✨

It reminds me of our rotary disk landline and I had to call my great-granny from Denmark, it was so many numbers that I often got lost half way through dialing it. 😂 And recieving postcards and letter felt like Christmas had come early, and there was time and space to reply. 🥰

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Yes! 🙌 Such beautiful memories 🌿✨

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I think in Europe, there’s acknowledgment of the old as transitions are made to the new. In my country, we don’t know how to adopt the new without throwing away the old. And then things are truly lost. Mindfulness is the key.

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Yes, I hadn’t thought of it that way 🌿

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This was a great read, thank you for sharing. I was having a similar conversation just last night - we were talking about how my mum would go mad if I called a mobile from the landline, or if my Dad made calls from his mobile because it was super expensive 😂 we were also talking about how we would need to buy magazines to find out the latest celeb gossip and would only know what the journalists wanted us to know (still valid in some respects).

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Absolutely! 😂 I’m so glad you enjoyed reading 🙏🌿

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