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My dad is 91. For about 20 years he's been emailing a daily news digest - whatever he felt was important, inspiring, encouraging, tragic, or funny - to a slowly-growing list of family, friends, former students and colleagues, grandkids, and lately great-grandkids. 1/4
Basically he's been doing the newsletter thing since before it was trendy. He started on CompuServ way back in the 90s. I tease him that he's been using email for so long it's back in style. 2/4
He's been suffering from irreversible untreatable macular degeneration for several years now. Using a computer became more and more difficult. Reading books turned into an Audible subscription, etc. But he still painstakingly sent his daily email out. 3/4
Until today. He finally hit send one last time. Couldn't face another tedious session at the keyboard. But as he signed off he hit us with this from Helen Keller: "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Thanks, Dad. We'll do our best.
Thanks, Dad. We'll do our best.
