My Auntie Em died. It was not like she didn't have some health issues, but it was still a shock. She had overcome an onset of lung cancer nearly five years ago, but apparently it returned with a vengence (lung cancer has no sense of humor) and took her out quite quick. She was a feisty, liberal, religious, (yep you heard those two right) and giving person. Sue and I will miss her greatly as will everyone else, which was apparent at her funeral. Aunt Emmelene was my dad's older sister, 79 plus actually, and as older sister's are want to do, she often told my dad the whatfor, but as my dad is want to do, he weathered these boughts of "improvement advice" and loved his sister. It is hard to lose your sister.
I got home and was working through a bunch of stuff and have about five emails from Aunt Emmelene, some read and one not yet read. I was on the running trail in the 5 am darkness this morning and thought what if you replied to one of those emails and got a note back!!! Oh my god, how scarey is that! Well let me tell you, in the darkness on the running trail it is VERY scarey. I scared myself. What if the internet really is a portal to the afterlife and we can just go ahead and email our dead relatives as if they were still around. I mean for some of us that is just about the extent of our relationship with our relatives -- email.
I'm sure someone has done a movie to that affect and probably written a book. You know there is actually a website called Email to the Afterlife!?!?. Just to be on the safe side, I am not going to send a note back to Aunt Emmelene. She deserves some time off anyway.
I got home and was working through a bunch of stuff and have about five emails from Aunt Emmelene, some read and one not yet read. I was on the running trail in the 5 am darkness this morning and thought what if you replied to one of those emails and got a note back!!! Oh my god, how scarey is that! Well let me tell you, in the darkness on the running trail it is VERY scarey. I scared myself. What if the internet really is a portal to the afterlife and we can just go ahead and email our dead relatives as if they were still around. I mean for some of us that is just about the extent of our relationship with our relatives -- email.
I'm sure someone has done a movie to that affect and probably written a book. You know there is actually a website called Email to the Afterlife!?!?. Just to be on the safe side, I am not going to send a note back to Aunt Emmelene. She deserves some time off anyway.
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