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Singapore-Riyadh-Andover. \u00a0Skype keeps the family together, once atomized, now a small molecule bonded by the internet. \u00a0Today and yesterday are Riyadh based brother Mark’s weekend and it’s Good Friday so Singapore civil servants, including my sister Mary, have the day off. \u00a0As most family conversations go, we wanted to know about cousins and Mark’s medical procedure, Mary’s featured role in an Indonesian international education conference and her trip on to Valencia for another conference. \u00a0My recent trip to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
This all has a 1950’s video telephone feel to me. \u00a0Formica table tops and background posters for fall-out shelters would fit. \u00a0Yet we are in the third millennium after the birth of Jesus. \u00a0A lot of \u00a0the 1950’s wildest ideas blossoming all around us and a whole raft of unanticipated ones, too.<\/p>\n
I especially like the tricycle in the background and the thoughtful, well-dressed housewife showing how easy it is to get below ground when the atomic weapons start dropping. \u00a0Makes me feel safer.<\/p>\n
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