The brain is alive with electrical communication with individual neurons primed to fire off new messages.
At the same time, I think it's important to be open with how you're feeling and just be keeping communication alive when you're writing.
It takes two to tango, and it takes two to keep communication alive in a relationship.
Alive validates that the communication partner has sent a response to the requesting entity and is available.
Esther Reed's family was relieved to learn that she was alive -- their last communication with her had been a typed letter from Oklahoma City in 2002, which they had feared was sent from someone else -- but they were concerned.
Today, the field of human-dolphin communication is alive and well: There are now machine interfaces that are capable of "translating" dolphin vocalizations and other research has found that dolphins exhibit vocalization complexity that rivals that of human language (although the existence of a dolphin language, or dolphinese, is still a controversial subject).
When the folks on Ares III, still journeying home, learn that their friend is alive, and that lines of communication are open, Martinez sends him an e-mail: "Sorry we left you on Mars, but we just don't like you".
14 18 For instance, a study by Heyland et al, 17 in which 434 hospitalised terminally ill patients were surveyed about aspects of care, revealed five top concerns rated as extremely important: trust and confidence in the physician; not to be kept alive on life support; honest communication; feelings of completion; and not being a burden on the family.
For me you can tell the best comics, in whatever genre or style, by whether they come across as truly alive, driven by a commitment to communication and self-expression, for making the reader understand, feel and empathise.
When you're divorced and raising a child together, the communication has to stay alive.
