My friend wrote about a mustard, yellow typewriter, and it made me ache for slow. Sure, give me a day of peck, peck, pecking, and spreading White Out here and there, and I may reconsider, but not today.
Today I ache for slow.
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Want to discover a blog with only handwritten posts? Now that’s an idea, people.
This post was written for Five Minute Friday where authors are given a prompt and asked to share, but only for five minutes. Click here to read more about today’s prompt: ache.
21 comments:
Oh, I love this! As much as I email and adore the online world, I'll always have a special place in my heart for simple, handwritten notes.
I found myself sending cards and boxes of gifts to people this week and realized how awkward it felt to handwrite something. That was a wake up call.
How funny.. my sister and I text each other handwritten notes all the time...(by taking pictures of what we wrote)...
generally it's dreams which need interpreting and/or an interpretation...
IT's just easier to write it out in the moment...and click a pic and send it then sitting there and tippy tapping.
I can't stand to delete those handwritten notes.
T
I love handwritten notes. Don't write them nearly as often as I should. Thanks for your 5 minute Friday reminder!!
Bought some beautiful old style stationary just a few months ago for this very desire. Handwritten grace.
oh yes...I still try to write handwritten notes...just thoughts of love to people...I fear it will be a lost art...
blessings to you...
I looooove this! I sent out a stack of handwritten cards the other day and got a huge response. People miss it more the rarer it becomes.
Yes! Thanks for this!!! This was part of the reason I was hesitant to start blogging in the first place. Although I like the click-clack of the keys, first and foremost, I'm a looper of letters. My good friend Sarah laughs at my handwritten prose (in love), because it can be horrific at times, when the energy gets a flowing. I would go in on this handwritten blogging with you, friend. :)
So, so, so, true. We ache for that which is real. tangible. and most can only be experienced by slowing down...
(and thanks for the heads up on that blog -- genius!)
~Nikki
Writing more hand written notes was part of my new years resolution. I have only written about 6 so far (was shooting for one a week) so I have some catching up to. Why am I doing it? because i know how much I LOVE to receive handwritten notes, so now I am trying to be better at sending them.
A family in Neillsville sent us hand written notes ALL the time. I still have them in a file. They are precious!
Thanks for the post!
Yes, this is great! My friend and I email, but we also write handwritten letters. Love the ideas in the comments to photo notes and send them. Great ideas, great inspiration! May we never lose the personal touch.
There is nothing so personal as a letter received with words where a friend's hand had pressed. The physical exchange of something beautiful, held tightly, and released, in love. Thank you for this beauty, Amy.
I love, love, love this! As an English teacher, I sometimes have my students handwrite for a few minutes, much like we do on Fridays, and there are always some who balk at the idea.
I love writing, by hand. And I love noted that were written by someone's loving hand.
And I so get what you mean about aching for slow. That's really a life-passion of mine right now.
Awesome post!
I'm almost giddy with the idea of handwritten, nostalgia and slowing down. What a great reminder. What a beautiful blog.
I write for much of the same reason you expressed, moving from addicted to self, to devoted to others. God certainly is a big God to do that in me too. :)
Beautiful
I love handwritten notes too. (and thanks for the mention, sweet lady. hope you have a great weekend.)
quite simply--i love this.
send me your addy, and i'll send you a handwritten note, friend :-)
steph
I love sending and receiving handwritten notes, it happens so rarely these days.
I've been nagging my 14-year old to write his birthday thank you notes this week, you would think I'd asked him to do something totally unreasonable from all the eye-rolling and sighing he's been doing :)
Any personal note is good by me, but I do mis the days where you received a letter and recognized the sender by the shape of the calligraphy, its slant and size. And I love a good letter with a cup of coffee :)
One of my friends has sent two notes in the past couple of weeks--a birthday card, and an encouraging card. I loved it. And I longed for more of this slow exchange.
Oh, and thank you for the link to The Handwritten Blog. Brilliant!
Inspired by this, I might try a little handwriting post at annkroeker.com.
I like your handwriting, Amy -- it looks friendly...exactly like you.
My husband and I are writing more than 100 thank you notes for memorial gifts given in memory of his dad these last couple of weeks. I'd forgotten how much it hurt the hand to handwrite a whole bunch. Yet it feels good and right to handwrite these notes, too.
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