The Lost Art of Letter Writing

This week on Inspire Me Thursday the topic is about the lost art of letter writing.  I really do hope that it is not a lost art…afterall, we all still have to communicate somehow.  Even the latest trends of blogging and twitter require people to write, just in typing form instead of old-fashioned handwriting.  I think the technology trends are really making the new generations of kids dismiss penmanship!  No one has to hand write an essay anymore, but it’s sort of sad. I’ve always been in love with old fashioned quill written letters from the past.  So romantic! 

Even I have pretty chicken-scratchy type of handwriting, but I had to stop and practice to get better at it.  These days, I’m not sure handwriting is part of the curriculumn in schools.  Granted there is so much for kids to learn these days, but I do think penmanship and development of writing by hand is important.  We can all get back to paper ourselves and make use of that rusty and trusty ink pen, right?

I hope you will stop a moment and take the time to hand write and send out a letter to a loved one.  Cheers!

Posted on June 8, 2009 at 10:48 am | Back To Paper