My summer has been crazy! I’ve had so many things I’ve wanted to blog about, but I obviously have not- eek! I’ve been traveling, writing (not on the blog), doing homework (ugh), and, oh yeah, getting life-changing-freaking-miracle-new-legs. But, this is me trying to get something down. It’s a random thought about handwritten letters. I published my 200th poem on my poetry blog today! I started it 2,453 days ago (almost 7 years) with my poem, "Mother" on 10/08/12, when I was 10-years-old.So, I was in this writing workshop (it was awesome, long story) and the woman leading it was amazing. However, there was one thing that she said that I could not take seriously. She was going on about how letters are so rare now, but how we should go back to them because back in the days letters were so beautiful and poetic and- Yeah, let me stop you right there. (Disclaimer: I love writing letters! I love getting them and I totally think people should write more of them.) Not all letters “back in the day” before texting were beautiful. No, you better believe we’ve romanticized the hell out of them for whatever reason. Plenty of people wrote plenty of s h i t letters before texting. Boom.
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Suzy
7/1/2019 01:40:03 pm
You're right about that!
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