Brilliantly put, Julia. I once attended Whoopi Goldberg's one-woman show, wherein she stated that "we have raised a generation of people we can't stand to be around." The riff was about manners. Amen to you both. And now we are the last who remember life without device-attachments. Like you, I preferred animals and trees. Still do. They tend to have better manners. When you do exit, you will be missed.