tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post5649225529345987401..comments2024-02-14T10:20:33.725+00:00Comments on Relatively Retiring: Love LettersRelatively Retiringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post-17460320422101767012008-10-27T07:50:00.000+00:002008-10-27T07:50:00.000+00:00Thank you, Anne Marie - I appreciate your comment....Thank you, Anne Marie - I appreciate your comment. Yes, hand-writing with a special pen on good paper is something of an art form, but the older I become the more I tend to word-process. I need to self-edit a great deal more, and reflect on my words before committing them to paper. I was once a young journalist, like you; ready, able and willing to dash off a thousand words on almost any topic. Now I have the leisure and pleasure of reflection and the lap-top is ideal for that. Print does not diminish the joy of finding a letter on the door mat, but green ink could well enhance it!Relatively Retiringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post-41354546559774184132008-10-27T05:57:00.000+00:002008-10-27T05:57:00.000+00:00I just discovered your blog through Pete. I'm deli...I just discovered your blog through Pete. I'm delighted to know you have a blog, since I've always enjoyed your comments on Pete's blog.<BR/><BR/>I love this post. It used to be such a thrill to receive letters in the mail when I was in my teens and early 20s. These days the only things that arrive through the letterbox are newspapers and bills.<BR/><BR/>I have a delicious fountain pen with emerald-green-ink cartridges, which I use exclusively to write my journal with. Now you've given me an idea - may be I'll use my pen to write letters.Anne-Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06769343406187885283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post-1647389190283099142008-10-26T07:50:00.000+00:002008-10-26T07:50:00.000+00:00Thank you, MM. It's really good when you discover ...Thank you, MM. It's really good when you discover you're not quite as bad as you thought. <BR/>I confess to word-processing my love letters these days for that very reason - and to avoid wasting paper!<BR/>I do hope you're fully recovered.Relatively Retiringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post-4290734607709534472008-10-26T07:27:00.000+00:002008-10-26T07:27:00.000+00:00I agree with you. Of course I do. Letters are bea...I agree with you. Of course I do. Letters are beautiful, leisurely, thoughtful. <BR/><BR/>Confession time. I have always struggled with them even in pre-email days. Partly bad handwriting, partly that I am somone who edits as she writes, so most letters take at least two attempts as the original would contains far too many crossings out. <BR/><BR/>The exchanges between you and your husband made me smile and the protective kindness you discovered in your youthful self is very touching.<BR/><BR/>Lovely post.mmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12602566764008799383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post-77749274998214511782008-10-23T13:24:00.000+01:002008-10-23T13:24:00.000+01:00Thank you for your comment with its interesting th...Thank you for your comment with its interesting thoughts on the virtual and the literal. There is still something very direct about a piece of paper in the hand, be it hand-written or printed. Hand-written then gives an additional dimension.Relatively Retiringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3430310340733122486.post-32245149430349463132008-10-23T09:22:00.000+01:002008-10-23T09:22:00.000+01:00There was a campaign recently to encourage people ...There was a campaign recently to encourage people to print their photos rather than leaving them on a hard disk eventually to be lost when it finally crashed. I suppose that's analogous to letters vs email (although prints and photos are vulnerable in ways digital files and emails aren't). Nevertheless, the process of writing by hand seems (to me) hugely different from typing emails — the psychology differs. In that respect, I suppose my analogy between prints/digital files and letters/emails breaks down, because ordering prints from a one-hour lab involves virtually no creativity. At least some emails involve at least some degree of creativity.<BR/><BR/>But you're right. An email has to be exceptional to compete with even a cursory, hand-written letter. Maybe I should write some.pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.com