Writing to NY and NJ

In recent weeks I've tried to keep up with my people in New York and New Jersey with a phone call here, an email there, a text over yonder. Many of them are not very responsive.

I think it is hard to strike the right tone. For us here in the hinterlands the quarantine experience has been disruptive and sometimes very boring, but ultimately we've spent a lot of quality time with our family members, gotten a lot of exercise, and had an excuse to not be very productive at work.

Up North they have been dealing with death and trauma. So I wonder if I sound flip or casual when I reach out to people. But one doesn't want to be all full of gravitas from the jump street.