Every month,
I trek to our writing chapter’s meeting.
Yes, I could spend that
valuable time writing.
Yes, the workshop information
could be found on the internet.
But it is what is not ‘officially’ said
that brings value to the monthly meeting.
It is the author buddy
who whispers about a call for submission
no one is supposed to know about.
It is the mistake a buddy made
that she’d never put in writing.
It is the facial reactions
to a question no one has guts to answer.
As Sherry Turkle shares
“….we need to remember —
in between texts and e-mails and Facebook posts —
to listen to one another,
even to the boring bits,
because it is often in unedited moments,
moments in which we hesitate
and stutter
and go silent,
that we reveal ourselves to one another.”
Not everything can or should be
achieved through technology.
Face-to-Face conversations are important.