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How To Show You Really Care
Gifts and cards are nice, but the personal touches rule.
Nowadays it’s tempting to let the important little personal gestures slide. It seems history is working against them!
Technological advances encourage us to lead virtual and singular lives; the enforced isolation of the pandemic adds to it also.
Sometimes we tend to forget to “Dance with who brung us.”*
About a week before most holidays, I’m bombarded by Internet solicitations on how to show your loved ones you really care. The week before this Father’s Day I actually got an email from Therapypet.com informing me of a 20% discount on the cost of a doctor’s letter certifying that the father in my life, was suffering from anxiety and/or depression. The letter would qualify him to own an emotional support pet. It took me a while to figure out that this dad could be me, one of my sons or my son-in-law.
How sensitive of old dad’s emotions -- a 20% discount on an emotional support pet.
Thank God my son, you really do care!
There isn’t a day that goes by during weeks before Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and other recognized holidays that I don’t get more than one advert from Jacquie Lawson. Somehow the e-card company seems to know when family members…
