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actual-sizeA dying art form... writ­ing letters.

This back-of-record-label went between my brother and me for almost five years. We put the loca­tion and date from where and when we sent let­ters to each other.

I trea­sure that label. (Actu­ally, he has it. I have a color pho­to­copy.) A pre­vi­ous or past label may reside in one of my boxes.

We stopped the label exchange many years ago. But we still write let­ters to each other, though not as much as we used to. Email is much faster and eas­ier. But way less sat­is­fy­ing. (Maybe I should take my fin­gers off the key­board and pick up a pen. Phil Ger­byshak might agree with me.)

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  1. Brother Bill says:

    The mem­ory test is this: what is on the OTHER SIDE of that label? I don’t remem­ber myself! I’ll have to look.

  2. Tim G. says:

    I miss let­ters some­times, but my hand­writ­ing has got­ten even more pathetic with disuse.

    There was some­thing good about tak­ing the time to craft a long, rea­son­ably coher­ent mis­sive. I rarely do that anymore.

  3. I cer­tainly do agree with you, though I’d go in the “guilty as charged camp.” I need to write more let­ters too.

    I bought a great pen to write some let­ters with, a van­ish­ing point Pilot foun­tain pen. It’s on repair with Lev­enger now, and I need to get it back and stop mak­ing excuses about why I can’t write...and just do it.

    Thanks for the reminder. Keep at it! It’s WAY worth it!

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