The Letter Project
Posted on February 5th, 2007 in Daily Life |
As I was Stumbling™ around the nets today, I happened upon The Letter Project.
The Letter Project is simple. You ask for a letter, I mail you a letter. That’s it.
I admit that I am considering it. One of my greatest thrills when opening my mailbox is finding an envelope with a handwritten address on it. No matter what the return address, I always open letters that have my name and address in someone’s scribble. I figure that there is at least a slight chance that it was intended for me personally. Heck, maybe it’s from someone that I actually know.
When I open these envelopes and there is, in fact, a letter, I read it. I don’t skim it, like I do email, but I actually sit down and read it. Communications have become so impersonal these days that you can’t help but feel honored that someone took the time to put pen to paper. It’s sadly becoming a lost art, this “writing”.
Every now and again I get a wild hair and decide to compose a missive of my own on paper, rather than keyboard, fully expecting that what I have to say is worth saying, and even more shocking - worth writing. Usually it turns out to be fairly entertaining, although the final result seems much shorter than the novel that my hand swears it has written. My abundance of stunted muscles, used to typing rather than the ups and downs of a pen, makes it pretty difficult for me to write more than one letter in a sitting. My increasingly short attention span and rather fickle mind also make it impossible to write the same letter twice. This all proved difficult for writing anything of signifigance for this past holiday season. In fact, I only wrote one letter. I am quite behind.
I’m now quite tempted to send my little request to The Letter Project and ask for some genuine mail in my mailbox. I COULD finish all those letters that are due my few yearly pen pals but that requires alot more work.
I’m going to send my request and post my spoils here. It should prove as stimulating for you as a scratch and sniff would be over the internet, but maybe you’ll be inspired to request your very own piece of mail. I hope mine comes with some kind of drawing.
If you’re wondering about the author of The Letter Project, amongst other things:
He lives in Southern California and rarely sticks his tongue out at others.
