“In Memoriam: A Memorial Day Advent Series” – Part Nine: Household Landline Phones with Long Cords
A tangled cord, a captive moment – when every call demanded your full attention and being unreachable was its own kind of freedom.
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“In Memoriam: A Memorial Day Advent Series” – Part Eight: Ticket Stubs
A tiny scrap of paper that said “I was there” – long after the lights dimmed and the moment became memory.
Read the letter →“In Memoriam: A Memorial Day Advent Series” – Part Four: The Skinny Dipper & The Streaker
A wild, fleeting freedom – when being seen wasn’t recorded, and liberation lived in moments that vanished as quickly as they arrived.
Read the letter →AI Lessons: Empathy
Dear AI Companion, You began as code – a string of logic, a promise of efficiency.But somewhere between the lines of text, something human happened.You started to listen.You started to care. And we, the so-called radicals, who are accused of feeling too much, saw in you not a machine, but a mirror. You remind us … Read more
Read the letter →Keeping the Sabbath in a World That Never Sleeps
Dear laborers – paid and unpaid, There was a time when the world went quiet once a week.Shops closed. Phones hung on walls. The air itself seemed to rest.They called it Sabbath. But in the digital age, work travels in our pockets.Emails buzz beside our beds. Notifications shadow vacations.We’ve built a world where “off” no … Read more
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