Handwriting

It's becoming a lost art.  This past week I was sorting boxes and consolidating.  I found a typed letter from my grandmother.  Now my Gma Garber has been gone since 1994.  This letter was typed in 1989.  It made my day.  The letter was done on a true typewriter.  I even have the typewriter in my garage.  Yes I am a sentimental nut.  Reading a blog today, the blogger was talking about picking up a pen instead of a label maker.   Got me to thinking about the typed letter, the letters from Brian's mom who passed away in 2005, the recipe cards from Brian's grandmother and countless cards that are signed by loved ones that I have hung on to all these years, and the journaling in the scrapbooks.  Some say pictures are worth a 1000 words.  But what happens when you're gone does your family know who is in the picture or why you took that picture?  These things are so precious to me.    Take some time to write a handwritten letter once in a while.  I know the cost of stamps is going up and it's getting harder but a friend may treasure that letter for years to come.