Can Anyone Get A Computer To A Great-Grandmother?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Ivy is a Great-Grandmother (pretty darn great, we think). Ivy wrote us years of dedicated Fitness Fixer stories of fixing disabling pain and regaining healthful fun life. Now that her computer is broken, she wrote me she would keep in touch with hand written letters. She wished all of you readers well.
Ivy's 86-year-old neighbor snapped photos for several of Ivy's stories. Both of them laughing as the neighbor pressed wrong buttons and Ivy had to hold poses and try again and again. Ivy sent me fuzzy prints by mail, which I scanned and posted. Follow Ivy's adventures, starting with Inspirational Ivy.
Ivy wrote:
"Just a short note to let you know that my computer up and died a few days ago.
"Actually, I was going to write you a letter (by hand - smile, smile) it being a long time since I have had to do that. For the moment, I am not going to replace the computer, finances being a little tight. Bill, who lives here in the village has kindly offerred his computer to allow me to look up the Healthline web site every ten days or so for which I am extremely grateful. He is aware just how much I enjoy your posts.
"I would suggest that you not send a reply, it more than likely will not arrive.
"I promise I will keep in touch with you be it by a friend's computer or by a "handwritten" letter.
"Love and hugs as always to you and Paul"
Ivy
If anyone has an old working computer or ideas to get one to Ivy in her little New Zealand village, please comment. Making life great, sharing life's good, doing right and having fun doing it is real health.
Thank you.
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1 Comments:
At Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:04:00 PM, Unknown said…
Is there a local library with a computer hooked to Internet? Or a church? Or is there some local computer whiz kid who might look at computer to see about fixing it?
I'm not sure how small Ivy's village is, but I found even in small villages in Scotland that there seem to be a lot of Internet resources. If there's a local tourist office (again, seems to be a lot in Scotland, not sure about NZ), they might have some ideas.
Teresa Merrick/Bellevue, NE USA
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