In a sea of despair

Ponderings

Hi RatonSi. 

Hope this letter finds you well in all important ways.

Yo, I'm not supposed to be writing letters anymore. After all, this is the age of emails and social networks and facebook and all those things which you young folks have invented, but I can't help it. 

I gotta go where my heart takes me and my heart beats way too fast when I think of giving up letter writing.

So, RatonSi, how ya doing?

I'm fine, considering.

A few minutes ago, I finished reading a post by this kid, Ashlye, one of my very important kids from school and I went through all the pages and...

do you think I understood a word she was saying?

NOT 

A 

CHANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She was talking about "ships" and "31 minutes" and...

what language was she using, yo? Why can't she write in English?

Is that the gibberish they learning in school nowadays?

My God!

Well, now that i think about it, RatonSi, you are just exactly the same!

I've seen the messages you send your friends sometimes and I have no idea what you are saying in them!

Anyway, just thought I'd share a little of my misgivings about our future in general with you.

Say, when you have a chance, we'll get together and do some zoom, all right?

Now there's a sentence I'd never thought I'd write one day!