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A fun way to wear these... Recently some customers requested that I only decorate the front of the bone and leave the favorite number exposed on the back. (of course I liven the number up) Still time to order for Christmas. Order by 12-5 or grab one of the funky Bones on the site. Either way you're gonna love it! Diviacity |
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Living In Color!
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Have you heard the commercial that says "A Brain Fart is a temporary release of ignorance?" LOL... yep, I've had a couple and now there's room for some good stuff and clear thinking LOL. I've decided to include my Article in the newsletter rather than to continue to link to it. Less clicking, more fun. I know, I know, duh!
This weeks Article is about Cell phones and Text Messaging LOL. I know there have been times when you thought "why don't they just pick up the phone and call", or "I don't have time to text back and forth". If it's a necessity that's one thing but if someone has started using that as a 'usual' form of communication that's another. Read Wired up (below) and let me know what you think
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 You may have noticed I have a thing about Nature. It's something about the bigness of it, the beauty and the danger. I'm awed by how beautiful it can be one minute and how it can turn into something so wild the next.
My blog Diviacity is not only about Art & Inspiration but about what inspires me and so many others, Nature. check it out and see some of the beautiful pics I've taken along by Journey.
The tree pic was taken in San Juan Baustista across the street from the San Juan Bautista Mission. To see more of my Collection of these photos click here East Coast*West Coast Divas.
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Personal
contact has suffered a great loss. It's been replaced by electronics.
Electronics of all forms. But namely, the Cell phone and the Internet.
Cell phones are great for calling but thanks to things like text
messaging even calling has dropped a notch or two on the communication
ladder. Have you ever had people text you many times, but not pick up
the phone to call once? Even family can sometimes use Text Messaging
(cell) and Instant Messaging (internet) as a form of constant
communication. Relaying a quick message is fine, but here we're
discussing Texting replacing verbal conversation.
I
think I noticed just how serious this was when I realized a week had
gone by without hearing my daughters voice but I'd convinced myself
that I had talked to her every day, and I had. She texted in place of
calling to avoid hearing the inevitable momisms from me. But I was so
used to it that it was just like I'd actually talked to her.Apparently I had been wooed by another form of electronic communication.
Texting
has taken such a strong hold that some tend to think they can even
detect the mood or emotions of the receiver. LOL Message: How are you
today? Response: I'm okay, how are you? Message: What's wrong, why are
you being so short? LOL. I asked some people about texting and their
thoughts and some said they really prefer it and others said it was a
nuisance.
Why do you prefer it?
It's easier to control the conversation.
I'm not a phone person, this way I can relay a message and move on.
Less questions and annoying conversation.
Sometimes it's nice to have a record of a conversation.
I
text therefore I am. Short quick and no immediate response required.
With instant messaging response is implied. Not always easy to do.
I've
only just begun to text; a particular friend and I communicate that way
quite often. I am no technophile, "so I only learned how to send text
messages about a year ago. I don't care for IM'ing because I don't type
fast enough. Also, I can't get with the short hand that is needed for
quick responses.
Why do you dislike it?
It's
a nuisance to have to stop what you're doing and type messages when it
would be so much easier to pick up the phone and call.
Takes away from the human contact experience.
I think it's a lazy form of communicating.
It requires more thought than I want to have to give a conversation. I just want to say it and move on!
To me it's like giving into the whole 'Living by Tech' thing we discussed a while back.
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Are
you wired up to Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Tagged or any of the
tons of other network/social sites out there to attract and distract?
Are you wired up to more than two, three maybe? What a technical
society we've become. There's Cell Phones that do everything but walk
and... well I guess they do talk. Today I talked to a friend and we
laughed as we reminisced about the old days. The days when Telephones
we connected by long cords and weighed as much as a small television.
No driving around talking or walking around talking on the phone.
Indoors or Phone booths. That was the choices.
In
some instances I personally think technology has also created a great
wealth of laziness. No need to doll up and go out there in search of
the other half. Or really to do anything. Simply share your personal
info with this wire or that wire and it's on.We have
officially become a computer driven society, you know, just like they
said it would be in the days of Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.
At one point I
fought the whole blogging and electronic networking thing with all my
"child of the 60's might". In the late 80's there was the BBSs and
seeing someone typing on the screen at the same time was magical.
Playing games (for me it was Jousting LOL) with someone across the
miles through a dark screen of a box that was as big as microwaves are
now was to die for.
Once
I got turned on to it, there was no end. I graduated from one to the
other, joined many online communities, as there are many, something for
anything you can think of. I joined art sites because they were there.
I joined jewelry networks because I could, food networks because I was
hungry LOL. You name it, it's out there. And there are many lessons to
be had from joining all of these networking communities and not all
good.
As
I sit here typing on this 17in laptop I laugh at the fact that my first
computer was half the size of an oven LOL. And the screen was black and
the letters were Cyan?
I
fear I too have become spoiled by technology. The cell phones, the
digital this and wireless that. Polaroids replaced by palm sized boxes
that contain everything but the printer and allow you instant view. The
phones without the long knotted and twisted spiral phone cords LOL,
remember those? LOL Unfortunately, along with the change in the phone
came the change in service you get over the phone too. Please Push 1,
Please Push 1, Please push... you know what I mean. And you want to
curse the recording out but what good would that do. She'd listen only
for a few seconds before repeating, 'please press 1' grrrrrrrrrrrr.
I
know we all basically have to go along with the changes as that's life,
I guess I will just keep hoping that people don't become cold and
distant without the need for that ever wonderful human contact only an
actual phone call or letter would provide. I always mention to friends
and family that I'd rather talk by phone. A couple of messages is one
thing, a form of consistent communication is another.
What do you think? I think... I'll respond to any questions or comments in the next newsletter.
Life is Good
Steph Jordan
www.diviacity.com
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Do you celebrate the Holiday? Do you celebrate alone? If you are alone this year and wish you weren't, There's no reason you can't celebrate alone. When it's all said a done, a good meal, a good movie and a loving phone call can make it so much easier to take. Celebrate! Your own Happiness is a power you can control! :-) |
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One of these definitely applies to you: I miss you, I love you, I wish you the best, I pray all works out for you, Talk to me, I hope you're having a lot of fun, Congratulations, Thank you!
Life is good!
Life in Color,
Steph Jordan
Diviacity
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