Welcome to TGLR. My Dad is partially responsible for this, I should tell you. Or rather, my Dad's collection of well preserved letters from his younger years in the 60's. This idea wouldn't have been born had I not leafed through those letters from times bygone, reading the script that represented the voices of another era.
This page probably wouldn't exist either, if I hadn't enjoyed the pleasures of receiving Red Vine licorice and a rock collection from my pen pal when I was nine. (How that bulging letter-sized envelope even made it through the sorting room is beyond me. :) ) I could also blame my friend, Amaris, who for several months faithfully penned multi-paged letters to me while studying medicine in Romania. And then, there is also my late husband who contributed to this love affair with letters with his romantic notes sent to me from England.
I've been fortunate to not be so young as to miss out on the joys of a full mailbox. Yet, I am young enough to witness the decline of letter writing to the rise of online social networking and cell phone texting. It makes me sad to realize that the generations after me will not or have not experienced what it feels like to read a hand written letter. It is truly a dying art. But!---it doesn't have to be.
Join me as I apply the defibrillator to the weakened letter. Help me bring about The Great Letter Revival!
In a world that moves so quickly that it loses touch with the things that matter most, help me to slow things down enough to reconnect to those that are important to us in life and to establish stronger connections through tangible, meaningful ways of communication.
Please keep in touch as details of this project develop to see how you can be a part of and/or contribute to the letter writing movement.
Long live the letter!
Cathy
I love this idea. We've just been going through several years' worth of letters written between my father-in-law and mother-in-law before they were married. He was in the Navy and they spent many months apart so they wrote to each other almost every day. Those letters were found after my mother-in-law passed away and they are giving us a glimpse into the two people who started the amazing family that I get to call my own. Thank you Cathy!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing and for being a part of the movement! Letters can be such a powerful form of communication and for many of us, they have written within them the details of our families' past. I don't want that to disappear. Thanks for the support.
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