Carol, Gypsy;
<<Do you mean you live in Asia, isn't the internet just a wonderful medium?>>
<<Do you like to read books, Stitch, there's a thread for that too. Isn't this amazing.
I will answer you both with one post if you do not mind.
The internet is truly amazing. I have been on the net for about four years. I do business research and communications on the net. I trade stocks on the net and manage my stateside accounts here. I reconcile my Amex and Visa accts here and wire moeny to Malaysia as needed. I communicate with friends and family via the net, including by voice. I teach my adopted Chinese son English, science, reading, astronomy, zoology, geography, etc on the web. We play games here, and he on one computer and me on another sometimes have "search" races to see who gets the most and best info on a subject drawn from a bag. We entertain ourselves on the net, and we always look at movie references here before we buy a film. I get all my stateside news from the net (Wall Street Journal, NY Times, San Jose Mercury News, and CNN in addition to industry specific news clipping service. Finally, I met my beautiful and charming wife on the net. A Malaysian Chinese lady who shared , among other things, an interest in poetry. That was three years ago. After many emails, chat sessions, and visits during business trips, we were married a little over a year ago. She a widow, I a widower, found a new life via the net. Amazing? Wonderful medium? I guess I would say a very hearty yes to that.
Do I read books? There are months that my amazon.com account exceeds my cigar allowance. Both are deep deep vices of mine. Latest books read include "The Soong Dynasty" by Sterling Seagrave, "The Creators" by Daniel Boorstin, "China Men" by Maxine Hong Kingston, "River Teeth" by David James Duncan, "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder, and a 19th century edition of collected Whittier poems , published as a part of the Landsdowne Poets series by Frederick Warne and Co., a well known Strand (London) publisher of the time. It is a prized posession which I found in a used book store in Kuala Lumpur and I can just imagine it being in the posession of some British "Raj" who may have shown it to Somerset Maugham during a visit or something. I bought it for the equivalent of 3 US dollars.
Enough about me, I will post the quintessential (for me) Edna Millay poem in a second post and at the same time share with you a bit about her.
best,
Stitch |
