My dad is 91. For about 20 years he& #39;s been emailing a daily news digest - whatever he felt was important, inspiring, encouraging, tragic, or funny - to a slowly-growing list of family, friends, former students and colleagues, grandkids, and lately great-grandkids. 1/4

Basically he& #39;s been doing the newsletter thing since before it was trendy. He started on CompuServ way back in the 90s. I tease him that he& #39;s been using email for so long it& #39;s back in style. 2/4

He& #39;s been suffering from irreversible untreatable macular degeneration for several years now. Using a computer became more and more difficult. Reading books turned into an Audible subscription, etc. But he still painstakingly sent his daily email out. 3/4

Until today. He finally hit send one last time. Couldn& #39;t face another tedious session at the keyboard. But as he signed off he hit us with this from Helen Keller: "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

Thanks, Dad. We& #39;ll do our best.