On one hand, one must stoutly eschew the detestable, constricted superficiality of Facebook and texting; on the other side, at the risk of being ignored oneself, does one not take into account the characteristic rapidity and abbreviation that have become the norm of modern written communications. The fact is that people feel strongly that they have "no time" for reading lengthy messages.

Therefore, taking the path of the middle way, we return to the modality of email that provides a respectable balance between abbreviation and elaboration. Specifically, a successful email will usually bulk up at no more than three paragraphs or perhaps 12 sentences. The email is a middle way between "texting" and rolling out leisurely prose for others to peruse. I generally detest "blogging" as much as "texting" or "twittering" because "blogging" consists of either poorly spelled and ungrammatical, intemperate outbursts or else someone's verbal diarrhea (called electronic journalling) that no one else cares to read, if only because they have their own "blog" to tend to.

The continuance of any form of thoughtful communication is the email (to which a submission to iBrattleboro is equivalent). Therefore I try to make mine neither too compacted (texting) nor too discursive (essaying). By the weeding of my own electronic verbal garden, I strive to provide my readers with meaningful statements in small packages.

And as this one has already reached the limit of its advisable length, I will sign off.