LETTERS – EXPECTATIONS PACKAGED IN AN ENVELOPE
Tuesday, March 2, 2021- daily column #6684
Dear Reader,
A letter imparts something.
From friend to friend, or to foe, to sweetheart, or to beau – we all know, the magic of a hand-drafted letter we carefully fold and treasure might be someone else’s trash or that makes someone else weep.
If the text, Zoom, Facebook and Twitter-verse, there is too much noise and too little poise.
Making peace or war, ordeals, regrets, or condolences, you can say it with flowers, but it’s better told in words. Opening salvos that stake a flag on some new territory or closing remarks to end the connection, there are few things we measure more or treasure more than word forevermore …
Miss-interpreted memos, or CAP-LACED RANTS, don’t communicate – they yell, miss-spell, or say ‘what the hell,’ but a letter is indeed a different matter.
Instead of a 15-word snotty-gram, how about a carefully written and proof-read letter. It takes longer. Is longer. Shows caring, shows respect, shows you took time and shows craftsmanship.
The next time you send a text or email that might matter, try pausing a few minutes – write a letter that will matter.
Imagine the kind of letter you want to receive – the style, the tone, the meaning, the importance. Feels great, right, even if the news is not what we want to hear.
Send more letters.
And, you’ll find you get more letters.
Kind regards and well wishes,
The Writer