In the Land of Internet…

…there once lived a day where good writing skills and elegant penmanship were critical when confessing enamored thoughts and affections to friends and family whom live miles away.

Now letters are all but obsolete.The hours once spent obsessing over just the right words to express our heartfelt emotion have been replaced by text messaging, emails and phone calls.

But to some, our high tech society can not take away that special something we feel when we receive a letter in the mail. Is it the hand addressed envelope that calls out to you from between the bills and mail order catalogs?

To me, it’s the thought that went into each sentence, each word, each letter. It’s finding the envelope, the address and the stamp.

These things all take time, which in this day in age is hard to come by. Letters show me how much the person cares about my family and I.

My mom was a pro when it came to sending letters and cards. I remember visiting her in Colorado after moving back with my father during their divorce. While she was teaching me how to drive stick shift, we stopped in the post office parking lot.

She went in and told me to get out. It took me all of 45 minutes to get out of that darn parking lot that day. I was so mad that I hadn’t even payed any mind to what she was doing in the post office.

Once I returned home, there laid a card on my desk telling me what a wonderful daughter I was, how much our time together meant to her and how she already missed me. This same card remains on my desk, 10 years later. As for every letter she ever wrote me, I keep them in a box inside my dresser drawer.

Life has a way of taking us away from the people we love most. Thanks to my mother, I try to keep in touch with friends, family and clients the best way I know how, by writing a thought provoked letter.

Who have you been meaning to write?

Until Next Time,

Brandi

http://anewfeast.com

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