Ah, the genuine love letter - a thing that happens all too seldom -
Mortimor J. Adler once said:
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and reading a love letter, they read it for all they are worth, they read every word three ways; they read between the lines and in the margins....then, as if never before or after, they read."
"....as if never before or after, they read." So true. Methinks it's time to return to the age of the quiet graces - when elegant words were written, not bought; when ink was smearable, not printed; when love was expressed, and proclaimed, and revisited...
Perhaps it's time to give your loved ones the kind of memories that can be bound together by faded ribbon and wisps of perfume - to be stowed away secretly in their hearts and minds and old shoeboxes...
2 comments:
Mortimer Adler was a very smart man. I miss the elegance and culture of handwritten letters. I used to send perfumed personalized letters and even used a wax seal to close the envelopes they come in.
The closest thing to a letter I write and read lately are V-day cards. The one I got last year made me tear up, in a happy sort of way.
i know what you mean sweetie...i know what you mean..
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