January 30, 2001
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I like writing to people, not via email, but instead, pen in hand, on nice stationery decorated with all manner of cute and pretty things (yes...i am a girl in this respect...) and rattle on and on on the way life is.
Email is the easiest method of communication, but so impersonal and distant. All i see are the same fonts in the same size, in the same color, just phrased differently. Where are all the unique littles swirls of the tails of letters or the abbreviated dashes of the crosses of 't's that makes letter writing so much more alive and immediate?
It's the same with journal writing - I liek writing in thick journals on good quality paper, feeling the lazy slide of pen nib on smooth paper. It is a sensuous luxury that I try to afford myself these days, one of the things that reminds me that I am alive. E-journals are good things for getting thoughts like these out to many people, but my most private thoughts I lay down on paper, to make tangible their presence such that they live and breathe and are another mark of my existence in this reality.
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Yes, the email is so convenient! I love it for that reason. However, I have decided to start writing by hand again to my relatives and friends. I recently found some old letters from pals, many yellowed with age, some flowered, some notepad stationery, some with little drawings and the flourishes, smileys and so forth. So much more interesting than printouts of emails.
Oh yes, hehe, I love writing to my friends abroad. Your right, stationary is brilliant & seeing a persons style of writing is highly interesting - says a lot about that person. E-mails are usually very impersonal
Thanks for subscribing too - hehe, quite an honour
Thanks!
All the best,
Zara.
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