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Writting a letter.

I've just found this, a better article than I could write on the form, tradition and art of paper communication. I was planning to do a post for this, but why re-invent the wheel, as they say?

I even learned a couple points I had not known, so all the better.

The section I have quoted is very close to my reasons for writing letters; It's (The letter itself, is) REAL. It is touched, held, and FELT as it is read. It's not just a bunch of slightly aligned, mostly random electrons floating on a wire, or somewhere in a hard drive, heaven only knows where.

The Art of Letter Writing |AT; The Art of Manliness

Because sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door. Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in another’s mailbox. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern, impersonal forms of communication will never approach.

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