Mom wanted to send a Christmas greeting to family and friends, so we went to steal some internet and electricity from Coconut Grove Beach Resort, the neighboring luxury hotel, today. I made a quick design of a Christmas card and sent it around the globe. I also uploaded it on the blog.
Now, with the computer fully charged, maybe I’ll even be able to watch a movie tonight. Otherwise, the internet isn’t anything that I’m really missing. It’s actually quite nice, not being connected.
But also: sending messages across the globe, from Thailand to South Africa, Finland, Sweden and France to the US and Canada, made me realize that I can never be fully unconnected. Not with such a spread out network of friends and family. The people that I share my life with are all over the place, and the internet makes it possible. I need it, for retaining my sense of me. I am a true product of the twenty-first century.
Leftover from our Christmas card photo session earlier today. Two of the boys are guests at the lodge, and the third works there.
Katja Malmborg 