Have you noticed?
Christmas cards are predominately being delivered by email! We still have some cards arriving brimming with the update for the past year. Usually we would have had two strings of cards already on our wall.
This year I think I count three cards.
As with any transition, there are certain traditions it is hard to leave behind. I enjoyed the color of the Christmas card strings. I appreciated the people who took time to write. I never tired of the sagas that unfold in the yearly update.
Oh, the updates are still there, and people do take time to write. But, for all my forays into the technological age (and I do love computers and gadgets), I still miss the tangible feel of card stock. I miss the handwritten signatures and the little P.S.’s at the end of the photocopied letter.
I still remember a remark made when I was taking my Master of Library Science. “Paper will never be replaced.” I’m not so sure that is true, but I understand the sentiment. I still want to hold those paper packages. I haven’t yet figured out how to hold onto bits and bytes of digital input!!