I love getting mail, and this promise is the beginning of what I hope will be a correspondence relationship. I have a couple of people in mind, but I haven't fully decided who I will mail letters to yet. This will be a paper letter with an envelope and a stamp. I know, right? Completely unheard of in this day and age.
I love the idea of letters. It's a romantic notion, a meditative one. A handwritten letter is the opposite of instant gratification. Letter writing is the art of meditative affection. It means that you were sitting in a location thinking only of another person, imagining them, creating a conversation out of thin air with them. It is focused energy and devotion. A person who writes you a letter is someone who cares, who had taken time out of their day to think only of you. It is the type of friend I want to be, but often am not.
So, to you three lucky recipients of my letters, know that I'm writing to you out of a deep and abiding love and affection.
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