Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Physically Writing the Written Word


Okay, I am making a declaration in front of the tens of people that read this blog: In the coming year I plan to try to make an effort to get back to actually writing written correspondence. It's becoming a lost art, don't you think? I think about writing letters and sticking them in the mail in a nostalgic sort of way, sort of like how you feel when you remember the time that you had an answering machine at home, and when you were not home that's where your calls went. To see who called, you had to go home and listen to the message on the tiny little cassette tape. Remember that?

Anyway, I think letters and cards are better, and they are a gesture that has been forgone, and I feel like that's a shame. Cards and stationary can be a thing of beauty (unlike the example above) and the sentiment and the time taken to put pen to paper, as well as the personal touch that you can't get elsewhere, no matter how many bells and whistles get added to your Hotmail or whatever. So, I plan to rekindle to lost loves soon, and I will share them with you. The love of playing with paper and glue, and the love of sending cards and what not through the mail.

So watch out, glue and paper coming to a mailbox near you. You know, a mailbox. Those boxes on sticks in your front yard that holds all the junk mail and coupons you get. Yeah, that thing.

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