“Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
How are you? I am fine. I hope you have a good day.
Love, Rene”
That would be the gist of the letter-writing campaign my mother had us kids do from the moment we learned to write. “Send your grandparents a note. They will love that.” So we did! They always started out the same way until we actually had lives of interest later on. The best part? Grandma and Grandpa would write back! You had to send a letter to get a letter and receiving mail was always special.
That was the reminiscing my spouse and I did last night as we checked emails and texts. We have taken the anticipation out of correspondence, something of a loss. I miss those letters from family and periodically reread some of the ones I’ve kept. We are losing that art. I think we should bring it back, even if it means a periodic painful trip to the Post Office.
Besides, cursive is so much prettier than fonts of various sizes and styles.
Amen!