With video chatting and email, it's easy for those of us living abroad to forget the distance we've placed between ourselves and our loved ones. Though I was able to talk with my grandmother before she passed thanks to these technologies, they couldn't transport me to the memorial service to be there with my family. I did send a speech audio file, which seemed like far too little. I've been told that people want to see the text, and since most of my readership is family--and in larger part, because my grandmother read my posts--I'd like to share it here.
