I love getting mail of the non-junk variety. It totally makes my day. So when Jaime retweeted this link today I got really excited. YES! The lost art of letter writing! So true! I followed the link to Mary Robinette Kowal’s “The Month of Letters Challenge.”
When I was in college my nana wrote me letters at least once a week. I cherish them. She is the reason I wanted to become a teacher. Nana passed away before I finished my degree. I never imagined that she wouldn’t be there to help me through my first year of teaching. Thanks to her letters she was there. I would go back and reread them when I was having a rough day. Some days it was only her faith in me that gave me the boost I needed to keep going. Even though she wasn’t there I had her letters to remind me. She was a life long letter writer. My parents have a box of love letters she and my grandfather exchanged during the year early on in their relationship that they had to live apart. They are so dear. I doubt that years from now my theoretical grandchildren will ever cherish an email or facebook message the way I cherish those letters.
So, all that to say I am so in! I can’t wait to find fun things to send! The problem? I need more people to send things to! If you want a letter/postcard/random thing I find to send fill out the form here! Also, I highly encourage you to participate to some extent! SEND MORE LETTERS!
A Month Of Letters
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