30 Dec '14 18:55>
Online Global Friends
This conversation's exclusively focused on reminiscences related to our online social media, public forum and correspondence chess site global friends. Privacy matters. Please observe the protocols of anonymity in all replies. Here are a few of mine:
1) One childhood friend recently requested an email of the Christmas Story I'd written years ago about our neighborhood adventures and misadventures in a small town near Boston which he shared with his own children, then replied with a few anecdotal incidents of his own. We're planning a few phone calls in January to share our life events in the decades since.
2) An acquaintance from Croatia and I have been able to communicate by way of in-game messages on another chess site thanks to an English Language Translator. One of his recent poignant replies to a compliment about his chess prowess was: "the same words". Since I've somehow been unable to get the bare bones simplicity of his sparse reply out of my mind.
3) A world travelled friend whose deep convictions and articulate posts about current issues attract a considerable volume of interest on a social media site forum mailed an unanticipated Christmas Gift from California Santa via Amazon. Wow!
4) Another online chess site friend called yesterday unexpectedly to reminisce about his Christmas and family and mine.
5) Losing an online friend due to illness or circumstantial difficulties also happens and it's painful. Though I miss her, William Stafford's memorable line comes to mind: "The bitter habit of the forlorn cause is my addiction". Tomorrow's a new day.
Few of yours?
This conversation's exclusively focused on reminiscences related to our online social media, public forum and correspondence chess site global friends. Privacy matters. Please observe the protocols of anonymity in all replies. Here are a few of mine:
1) One childhood friend recently requested an email of the Christmas Story I'd written years ago about our neighborhood adventures and misadventures in a small town near Boston which he shared with his own children, then replied with a few anecdotal incidents of his own. We're planning a few phone calls in January to share our life events in the decades since.
2) An acquaintance from Croatia and I have been able to communicate by way of in-game messages on another chess site thanks to an English Language Translator. One of his recent poignant replies to a compliment about his chess prowess was: "the same words". Since I've somehow been unable to get the bare bones simplicity of his sparse reply out of my mind.
3) A world travelled friend whose deep convictions and articulate posts about current issues attract a considerable volume of interest on a social media site forum mailed an unanticipated Christmas Gift from California Santa via Amazon. Wow!
4) Another online chess site friend called yesterday unexpectedly to reminisce about his Christmas and family and mine.
5) Losing an online friend due to illness or circumstantial difficulties also happens and it's painful. Though I miss her, William Stafford's memorable line comes to mind: "The bitter habit of the forlorn cause is my addiction". Tomorrow's a new day.
Few of yours?