I rarely write letters that depend upon a postage stamp and letter carrier for delivery.
E-mails and text messages, while decidedly less personal and more disposable, provide a quicker and more direct method for communicating. This blog is another counter to the handwritten note. The mass method of personal discourse is not going anywhere.
Honestly, I miss the permanence of a postmarked communique. Through the years, I have been on the receiving end of the occasional postcard from a friend or the love letter from a long since scorned former flame. Or the "look how great my life has become" Christmas card. I even sent a few.
I miss that exchange, even if I wasn't very good at the exchange part.
Some adage says that a person has to send letters to get them in return. Sounds completely logical to me. The sending and receiving is something I need to experience on a regular basis. I would like to soon find myself penning a strongly struck letter to someone. Perhaps I would include some photographic trinket to accompany the words or maybe I would let them stand on their own accord. Promptly depositing 41 cents of self-adhesive bus fare, I would send it on its journey with hopes for reciprocation. It would be amazing how the old way would become my new way.
Interested? Send me an address that does not include the "@" sign to this address that does: cl [at] christopherlawson [dot] com.
P.S. YIELD TO INCOMING SEMITRUCKS.
E-mails and text messages, while decidedly less personal and more disposable, provide a quicker and more direct method for communicating. This blog is another counter to the handwritten note. The mass method of personal discourse is not going anywhere.
Honestly, I miss the permanence of a postmarked communique. Through the years, I have been on the receiving end of the occasional postcard from a friend or the love letter from a long since scorned former flame. Or the "look how great my life has become" Christmas card. I even sent a few.
I miss that exchange, even if I wasn't very good at the exchange part.
Some adage says that a person has to send letters to get them in return. Sounds completely logical to me. The sending and receiving is something I need to experience on a regular basis. I would like to soon find myself penning a strongly struck letter to someone. Perhaps I would include some photographic trinket to accompany the words or maybe I would let them stand on their own accord. Promptly depositing 41 cents of self-adhesive bus fare, I would send it on its journey with hopes for reciprocation. It would be amazing how the old way would become my new way.
Interested? Send me an address that does not include the "@" sign to this address that does: cl [at] christopherlawson [dot] com.
P.S. YIELD TO INCOMING SEMITRUCKS.
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