My latest favorite...

[susandennis]

I have gotten hooked on this woman's blog. The more I read, the more I realize that she's just writing what I think and feel.  Isn't that nice of her?  It's saving me a lot of typing.

Today's entry is one I've been formulating in my mind for months.  I am not one who cherishes handwritten letters.  When I get a personal letter in the snail mail these days, I cringe. It means I need to reply in kind.  It means I need to hunt down paper and an envelope and hope that my handwriting is legible.  It's a pain.  But, there was something there that I was missing and could not quite put my finger on.  I got a partial print in one of my entries yesterday about the value of keeping an online journal.

Today, this woman just wraps up that with the vestigial value of handwritten letters in one very articulate entry.  Very cool.  I owe her... again.

Comments

[nanne.livejournal.com]

I'm not one for writing letters anymore, but if I want to thank somebody for something wonderful or nice they've done I will send a hand-written note. Basically because a gift would be too much and an email would be too easy. I always keep half an eye open for the cool and interesting note card (museum shops are the best!) just for that reason. It's not a lot more effort than an email (stamp, then put it in my mailbox for pick up), just more personal.

[susandennis]

OH Excellent point!!!! A gift requires a handwritten snail mail thank you in the Susan Dennis Law Book! Absolutely and no exceptions unless your death occurred prior to receiving the gift.

Oh, wait, this is for when I rule the world. ok, so it's not law yet, but....

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Fantastic blog!
I've bookmarked it and I see there are many more

[(Anonymous)]

So glad I can be of service, Susan. :-)

I agree completely on thank you notes. I solved the problem of keeping cards around a hundred years ago - okay, 40 years ago - by maintaining a supply of heavy-stock 5 x 8 cards with a simple, elegant border and my name engraved at the top.

The expense can choke you - these suckers don't come cheap - but they are always appropriate for any possible occasion and it gets less expensive these days as there are fewer occasions for hand-written notes.

Thank you so much for your kind words about Time Goes By - and you don't owe me a thing...

[kayseaconklin.livejournal.com]

What a relief to finally be finding the voices of women my own age. While I do love my younger friends, there's something vastly comforting in the wisdom of age.

[taniwhanui.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Have added her to my favourites so I can check her blog out when I have time. Thanks. (:

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Our blogs (and saved emails too) will become as important to our current and future loved ones as handwritten letters were to people of another era.

This part of that woman's entry particularly resonated with me. Although I have several people who really enjoy reading my posts as they come along, few people -- if any -- would find it very interesting to go puruising through my archives to read posts from yesteryear.

But I always felt, and still do, that younger generations -- my brother's children, for example -- will one day likely find it really fascinating to read through those entries, and it is perhaps for that reason more than anything that I hope they stay live and online long after I'm dead.

God knows, I'd love to have something like that to sneak a peak at by my parents or aunts and uncles, but, alas, they didn't have the Internet.

(Incidentally, the only people I write snail mail letters to now are my grandmother and her sister, my Auntie Rose. Grandma is the only one of the two who still writes by hand at any time, but even she uses a typewriter now. I haven't written someone a letter by hand since 1999, and that was only because it was while I was on a trip during which I had no access to a computer!)
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