Flowers arrived with a message - in the florist's hand - saying: "Best wishes, Rhys".
The warning had arrived in a message via Facebook, and the woman, Kimberly Sauer, took it as a sure sign that the sender's account had been compromised.
As the e-mail message arrived, a small but fervent band of outraged journalists protested.
The problem is that, his message arrived a day late.
Shape-shifting and moody, it arrives with a message that is opaque as often as it is threatening.
Sometimes I imagine that a piece of the terrible white confetti of 9/11 has blown all the way around the globe to arrive, like a message in a bottle, and that I open it and read: "September is not the cruelest month".
A few days before I arrived, an ISIS commander sent a message across the canal, carried by a local Turkoman businessman, asking General Fatih, his counterpart, if he was willing to talk.
Meanwhile, an Indian government delegation arrived Wednesday with a message to hasten a return to democracy.
Before this destructive violence extended further into the natural world, a Peacemaker arrived to deliver a message called the Great Law of Peace.
I felt a vague, dark foreboding for the remainder of the afternoon, until I arrived home to a message from my oldest daughter, Lisa, letting me know that she was safe.
When a message arrives, an optional alarm rings and/or flashes and a blinking star appears at the upper left corner of the screen.
