Postcards at Blue Bottle in SF
Do you take the time to write letters? Send postcards? Lick postage stamps?
There are a legion of folks out there who also do those things, although at times, you may feel as if you are the only one.
When asked what one did over the weekend for fun (while standing around the watercooler on a Monday morn), you will hear very few proclamations of “I wrote some letters” or “I made postcards for a friend”.
With that in mind, I ask you “Why not?” Why not carry an addressed postcard in your handbag or backpack, ready to be filled out and mailed off? Why not write five (or more) words on a drinks coaster from your favorite cafe and toss it in the mailbox to a friend? All it takes is a postage stamp (easily transported in your wallet!) What about an envelope folded from the menu of your local brasserie, created as you are waiting for your dinner to arrive tableside? The waiter will be charmed, I guarantee, and you may even get a complimentary glass of wine (it happened to me!).
Sending a letter doesn’t have to be an orchestrated process; often something spontaneous is just as effective. The most important thing is to send. To get a letter, send a letter: it’s as simple as that.
–JH
Everyday should be a Red Letter Day... 
Rock on!
…and I recognize that Pilot V-Pen. 🙂
I just added you to my blog’s list of letter blogs.
@ Missive Maven: yay! Many thanks for the blog add. And I do love me some of that Pilot V-Ball disposable fountain pen action. Did you know they com in “fine” and “medium” point?
–JH
Hey JH – yep, I generally keep both the Pilot Varsity (M) and V-Pen (F) around for handing out to people who may be converted to fountain pen use. And sometimes it works! Does that make me a fountain pen evangelist? Hmmm….
Either that, or a fountain pen pusher/enabler… 🙂
I once received a letter on a pop-tart box – loved it! And I am disposable fountain pen fan all the way. I love the scritch-scratch sound. I went to write a letter yesterday, and could not find my fountain pen (which is not uncommon – the pens seem to travel). I was greatly diappointed at the thought of writing with a regular old “gel” pen. Ah well.
Enabler 100%, I can’t deny it.