Closer every day

I was born into a tight little world of family and familiar sights, sounds and feelings.

Little by little that world expanded into extended family and friends, neighborhood and city and I learned to talk on the telephone and watch a less familiar world on television.

Eventually I went to school, then high school and finally college.  I discovered calculators and  transistor radios, microwaves and boom boxes, CD players, cell phones, digital cameras, computers, smart phones....

And each new step took me, not farther from, but closer to the people and things that are nearest and dearest.

Some of the people in my great grandmother's generation left home in covered wagons and never saw their families again.  I am seldom farther away than a few flicks of my fingers no matter where I am.

Technology only separates us if I want it to.