write a letter

want to write a letter to my estranged neighbor who moved to arkansas

I have friends around the world – I would be so happy to get a real letter from them, so why not get started with one of my own!

I just took my pencil and pad of paper and went out walking, and sat on the porch of the community center. I think it helps to find some time outside of time, in a place where the ordinary tug of events doesn’t pull at you. There’s a box in my closet full of the letters my friends wrote to me in old times. E-mail doesn’t hold a candle to that … those memories will always be there, waiting to be touched and held and lingered over, and there is a depth of experience in those words that takes much more time and space to express than most of us these days are willing to give.

Wow we really living in a digital world. I automatically typed email instead of letter. I meant that I wanna write a letter to my friend in India. This is a sign that I really HAVE to do it.

I’ve decided that I’m going to write an email to a friend in India and actually post it. I know that sounds weird but mostly people send letters by hand. I wanna put it into that post box flap thing and put a stamp on it and everything. I think I may send friends postcards. Actually I’m gonna post friends that live down the road. Yay I can’t wait.

Hey for those that are interest check out this site: www.futureme.org

.. this is a dying art.
A skill and privilege, not to mention what used to be the fastest and easiest way to exchange information. I’m sad that I’ve never written to someone…

I’ve just finished writing a letter to my friend Emily. I live in Northern Ireland and she lives in Australia. We usually talk on the phone and email but i think a letter is so much nicer. I hope she writes back I love getting post that’s not bank statements or someone trying to sell me something :)

Strange how no matter how many words you add to a page it weighs the same as it did when it was blank. Sometimes it seems it should be heavier. I wonder where the trees this paper came from grew?

My letter was written over 3 days, and I’ll be mailing it off inside a chock full box tomorrow. This was a good thing.

It’s more of a care package really. An important one. I’m picking a lot of different things to go in it and am halfway through a letter. It’s a hard one though… bittersweet. There’s room for some more memories before I find stamps.

I wrote a reply to a letter a friend from school wrote me. Hopefully we are beginning something we can keep up with for a while. Letter writing will come in handy to keep in touch with friends when I move, eventually.