About Face!

It's a pleasure to turn on my computer and be transported to places of beauty and inspiring words as I read blogs of people who have become friends. It's amazing how one can connect with others as we share mutual interests, ideas, and thoughts. It is sort of like the pen pals of the "old days." There's a lot more that can be said about this cultural phenomenon, but that's for another time.

Then there's fb, where I can catch up on friends near and far. The funny thing about that, with local friends, is that we already "know the news" before we even see each other, so, in a sense, have one step of conversation already out of the way. Not sure about how good that is, but.... Though some people may share way too much, there can never be enough photos for me. As have many others, I've recently connected with old college friends. We've been putting on photos from our days together at a small college (so we knew each other pretty well), and "discussing" them together as we reminisce. We've found we're still pretty much the same people except---ouch---we look just a bit older! What fun though.


So here's a funny fb story. I opened fb awhile ago on a Saturday night, and a young mother, Ginny, had just posted that:

1. "Billy (age three) has just knocked out his front tooth and it's bleeding."
2. I wrote: "Do you want me to call Youngest and ask what to do?" (Youngest is a dentist.)
3. "Please do," came the reply, "we'll get photos on in a couple of minutes."
4. Sure enough, by the time I had Youngest on the phone the pictures of Billy's mouth were on fb.
5. He logged on to fb and I tagged the photos as mine, so my dentist son could see them on my fb page.
6. Youngest gave his advice which I both typed in and phoned to Ginny.

All in under 10 minutes. Apparently Ginny's husband questioned her being on fb during a crisis, but she said, "You never know who might be on." Sure enough.  Smile.