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Letters to the Earth

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Dear Fellow Earthlings, Today I am sending out a challenge to write a letter to the Earth.  I will write one this week.  If you write yours and would like to share it, please send it to me at connect@writealetter.org and I will post it here. You may also wish to submit your letter to […]

Letters to Self

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Dear Reader, Here is another “Guest Author” treat from Colette. Her Letters to Self  is such a thoughtful idea to fulfil her personal wish to continue receiving mail from foreign places -way into the future. She’s right, it’s brilliant! Ever since I learned how to write, I have had pen pals.  The French nuns at […]

Addie and Rebecca

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Addie and Rebecca were pen pals during the mid-19th century. They were free black women who navigated the turbulent times during America’s Reconstruction Era. Addie Brown, born in 1841, was orphaned early in life and as a result she joined the working class as a domestic servant. Five years older, Rebecca Primus was born in […]

Song of Songs

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Dear Reader- Margaret Shepherd’s calligraphy show, “Song of Songs” just opened at Yale’s Divinity School last week. The back story of this event is a curious one, so I thought I’d share it with you…And, in this season of Valentines, it’s easy to talk about some love poetry! In the Spring of 2010, Adam Schwartz […]

The 2nd Week in January

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Universal Letter Writing Week celebrates the art of communicating through letter writing.  It occurs each year on the second week of January.  Although this notice is a few days late, there is still plenty of time to participate by writing someone a letter. Perhaps there’s a thank you note leftover from the holidays that you […]

1st Christmas Card (revisited)

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Before there were printed greeting cards, people sent handwritten messages to each other. In 1843, Henry Cole, a British civil servant and entrepreneur, commissioned John C. Horsley to design the above Christmas card. Sir Henry Cole (as he later became known) was looking for a way ordinary people could use the services of the newly […]

“My Dear Friend”

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After her grandmother died in 2000, Rachael Doyle, a high school junior from Long Island, decided that she wanted to do something to lessen the loneliness for some seniors in a local nursing home. Rachael along with 2 volunteers went into the senior facility and offered the women there makeovers. It began with doing the […]

Writing Your Thanks

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Dear Reader,  In this season of generosity, please be sure to stir in time for some handwritten thank you notes. Sadly, technology has overshadowed this precious act of human courtesy.  Writing your thanks says so much more than the words alone.  When you take the time to acknowledge a kindness rendered, it touches the heart […]

Letters to Voters

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Dear Reader- Here we are days after the election and uncertainty still prevails.  If you feel like doing something, I have a suggestion: Write a letter. As you know, letters are my passion. So, I’ve signed up to write letters to voters for that special runoff election in Georgia’s senatorial race. VOTE FORWARD- began this […]