A good handwriting letter is a creative act, and not just because
it is a visual and tactical pleasure. It is a deliberate act of exposure, a
form of vulnerability, because handwriting opens a window on the soul in a way
that cyber communication can never do. You savor their arrival and later take
care to place them in a box for safe keeping.
KEY WORDS: Handwriting, art of writing, tracing the history of
writing as method of communication and storytelling, cursive writing, fine penmanship,
letters and notes, library hand
Once upon a time it was a little girl who just learned how to
write letters of alphabet and put them together. She did not know yet the right
spelling of words and ask her mom to right down the words for her on piece of
paper that she could copy them on the holiday greeting cards. And the world
would know that the girl is not little anymore and that one more person
obtained literacy and is learning to read and write with a proudly display. Who
does not remember to receive a card written by a niece or nephew? All these
cards and creative home-made envelopes, letters written by children were then
read with a smile and put away in an old sentimental purse or a shoe box with
other letters as kept memorabilia.
(Fragment from "The Art of Writing Handwriting Letters and Notes" publication)
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