Ethan:
Ehlana and I are playing normal kids again
tonight. We’ve had a good day at school;
did our ‘homework’ and then had some play time with our friends after that; had
dinner-for-eight; and then we played at the Inn for game night. Now we’re in bed; and will be heading off to
sleep – or at least pretending to do that; since I may do some archive reading
for a while first. That’s all the news I
have for today, so I’ll wrap this up; and get back to the ‘real’ world.
Ethan – out!
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Ehlana:
We should have more news while Cassie’s
home, but we really don’t have much – other than it’s been nice to spend time
with her today. Most of our favorite
collegians got their Spring Break studies finished today while we were at
school; so they’ll get to take it easy for the rest of the week and
weekend. Cassie isn’t done, but has more
finished than she’s admitting to her friends for obvious reasons; and that’ll
give her an excuse to do other work instead.
That should make it easier for us to have a bit of extra play time with
them, but we’ll see how that goes; since they do have a lot of other people
wanting to spend time with them too.
That was true tonight at the Inn, but then
my favorite news from game night was Madelana’s and Stefan’s reactions to our
quaint little small-town entertainment.
We do know how a lot of people from other places feel about our
traditions like game night, but the ‘what’ we’re doing isn’t what they should
be looking at – it’s the bonds we have as family, friends, and neighbors that
really matters. Those bonds run deeper
than anyone outside of our Magi community can imagine, but it’s still true for
everyone else in our town and the entire Ridge River district. It’s sad that everyone doesn’t have that – or
even seem to know that they need those strong connections.
I’m not commenting on that to pick on
Madelana and Stefan. They are part of a
small community with their best college friends, and they do have other
connections with family and friends in their home towns, but it’s also-true
that they don’t appreciate those connections the same way we do here; and there
are other differences. That’s more a
reality of our times and technology, but that fact doesn’t need to matter;
since how we use those tools is a choice.
I’ll pick ‘face time’ with others in person over digital communications
every time; and I’m really glad that we only use our electronic toys and
devices instead of having them control our lives.
Let’s not get started on a rant
tonight. I’d love to convince everyone
that there is life without a Smartphone, but that isn’t a message that would go
over very well with most kids and teens; so I’ll just be happy that things are
different here in our happy little home town.
I also want to get some reading done tonight, so I guess that’s it for
me; and I’ll get to that for a while until I’m ready to get some sleep.
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
