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old school and high-tech monuments Janet Kuypers 3/26/15 People stop to tell me they are sorry about my mom. One woman hugged me and said, “they always take the good ones” — because you’d think she had gone through enough in her life for crimes she didn’t commit, so... Yeah, they always take the good ones. It is unfair. It’s completely wrong. Someone has to be held accountable. She was one of the good ones, and I hate you for taking her this way — I don’t care who you are, you, who leaves me here to write until my fountain pen runs dry. It becomes a mantra. Record her stories. Record her praises. I will sit at my computer, slam my hands, my fingers against that keyboard because there has to be a record. I’ll share stories. I’ll write volumes. Book after book with traces of her will infiltrate libraries and online book stores. I’ll stand at every mountain peak, sing her praises, I’ll give people copies of these words because as I said, there has to be a record. And when the pens are gone, I’ll prick my skin, spill my blood into words onto pages — that is what these words mean. When my computer is obsolete, when the Internet is dead, I’ll ram mallet to stone to chisel these words, create monuments to you. You wanna see a record? Just know that civilizations aeons from now will see these testaments from salvaged libraries and carved from stone, and live for these words. Trust me. ### We live in a world where everything speeds by in six second increments. The world says our youth has Attention Deficit Disorder because we cram a billion things down their throats instantaneously with every groundbreaking gadget to get all that info that much faster. ...So wait a minute, why worry so much about the word when sometimes the message brings the meaning? Then fine, time to get high tech. Let’s start with a haiku, and make it a six second vine. there has to be a record. her existence makes trees take root, flowers bloom, so nature’s beautiful. Things are beautiful when you speak the truth, and hey, that could be a twitter poem post too... I’ll put these writings in web pages, make them free downloadable PDF files, post them on Facebook. I’ll go old school and print them in a magazine and a collection book too... I’ll use every resource at my disposal to blanket this planet with these words. Because as I said, there has to be a record. When a life that beautiful comes and goes, the world needs to stand up at attention and pay their respects.

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