How are you connecting with people?

[petra]

Online, on the phone, in person -- what's working for you?

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[petra]

I'm going to be at Con.Txt online tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to it.

[dine]

I see a few coworkers when in the office two part-days a week, I talk with friends/family on the phone or by text, and I e-mail/comment on journals. I've also been sending notes via snail mail to folks

[via_ostiense]

How was Con.Txt?

[via_ostiense]

A mix of things - texts with people from work, phone calls with friends, and lots of cards/postcards to friends, which I send out with the feeling of putting a message in a bottle and tossing it into the ocean (i.e. dispersing them widely, with little hope of a response).

[petra]

I had a migraine, so I was pretty passively there, but it was fun anyway.

[petra]

I'm glad you get to see some coworkers when you're in the office. That adds a reason to be there, I'd imagine.

[petra]

Thinking about cards as messages in bottles makes a lot of emotional sense to me. I'm glad you can send them without expecting uptake.

[dine]

their offices are all upstairs, so coworker time is mostly in passing - but it's nice to chat for a minute with an actual person who's not in a drive-thru window

[via_ostiense]

I'm glad you got to enjoy it at least a bit!

[via_ostiense]

It's a work in progress - some days I wish people would write back, but other days I do better at thinking of it as a therapeutic exercise, like journaling but with a chance of connection.

[nondenomifan]

Telephone and Zoom, mostly. Oh, and Facebook Messenger (computer only from my end because it opens security holes on mobile devices). I also attend an Alzheimer's support group via GoToMeeting through my local senior citizen center. And, sometimes I attend church by watching the service live on Facebook or later streaming on YouTube, but I try to attend safely in person now that I can.

[petra]

I'm glad you have the support group to help with everything, and that you can go to church now. Those sound like definite good things.