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Do you still hand write notes and things occasionally? Every...

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COMMENT 292952	2012-06-30 01:33 PM
Every day several times.
ARCHIE	2012-07-01 07:51 AM
I still write notes expressing appreciation, get well wishes, sympathy, and send birthday cards (Kmart has by far the most elaborate selection in all topics). In fact, I make photo card stationery which I sell. I wonder what will constitute a written record of our times when it's dependent on electricity- a plug- and a technology of each new feature racing to outmode the previous version. There's also the creative attribute of handwriting itself. It is drawing- on paper- which is a primary and immediate "making". The page is a landscape where there are no limits, the only requirement is the intention of the person behind the pen/pencil/crayon, and their ability to express thought, even if it meanders and ends up showing them what they think. I find the practice of some U.S. schools excluding the teaching of handwriting to be appalling.
COMMENT 293166	2012-07-01 01:26 PM
A lot of our knowledge of previous times comes from hand-written letters that had been saved. Particularly what we now know of women and people of color and servants. Because "his"story was just that..... written accounts of the lives of men..... Men with property and position in society. A lot of (if not most of) what these men thought important to write about had to do with wars of one kind or another. For a more well balanced account of what ALL of our lives are about shouldn't we all try to "write" journals of what we think is important for future generations to know about the past?

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