Their offspring are also mine, and with the arrival of a chubby baby boy earlier this year they number seven. Our primary form of contact is a group WhatsApp chat: my parents and the eight children. Every now and then one of us loses a phone or changes a number, and we start a new chat. The WhatsApp group is chatter to let us know the small stuff, to keep us company wherever we are. It’s this small stuff, these wispy threads, that weave seamlessly into a fabric that stretches over the time and space between us.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2019 18:33 UTC