Pen pals?

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Alby

Alby

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we live in a capitalist society we have all the crap
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i can handwrite much faster than i type. i never learned to write in cursive, tho, so i write in an odd manuscript scribble wherein i've formed my own kind of cursive, joining adjacent letters to each other in the kind of haste one develops when trying to furiously copy notes from a chalkboard that is about to be erased and refilled with more notes to also be copied - all the while adding marginal notes to try to explain to yourself what all this scribbling means, later.

the post office used to have a machine open 24 hours that you could buy stamps with, which only dispensed change in coins, not bills. that meant, if you put in a $5 and bought less than a dollar in stamps, you got 4 dollar-coins back. i got a big kick out of carrying a sack of golden Sacagawea's instead of a wallet full of paper. so i would amass piles of 1-penny stamps, and when i wrote letters, cover a side of the envelope with them.
sadly there's not enough real-estate on a standard envelope for the amount of penny-stamps one needs, these days - and ((at least where i am located)) no more stamp-machine dispensing change in my imagined facsimile of gold doubloons.

this whole thread is painfully reminding me that i should send my mom a letter :unsure::rolleyes:
for which -- my sincere thanks @Alby for the conviction!
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If my Mom was alive she would be getting handwritten letters!
 
seoulsearch

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BrotherMike said:
Do you think handwriting can show your personality?
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Interesting question, Mike...

I've only read a little bit about handwriting analysis, but it would be fascinating to have done.

One thing I love about handwriting, no matter how messy, is that handwriting is basically a unique personal font that God gives to each individual (kind of like fingerprints, but in the form of communication.) :)
 
Alby

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The last pen pal I had was when I was fifteen in high school. I didn't have a lot of friends and my best friend at that time suddenly moved away. We kept in touch with letters and tape cassette recordings of ourselves and musings. Like one way chats that you wait two weeks for a response to! we would also send gifts to each other . That actually kept our friendship alive for quite some time until it eventually dissolved
 
BrotherMike

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seoulsearch said:
Interesting question, Mike...

I've only read a little bit about handwriting analysis, but it would be fascinating to have done.

One thing I love about handwriting, no matter how messy, is that handwriting is basically a unique personal font that God gives to each individual (kind of like fingerprints, but in the form of communication.) :)
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Yes it is fascinating how we all have our unique font and how we are all uniquely created!
 
Alby

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seoulsearch said:
And now I'm really curious...

For Alby and anyone who writes letters... How did you get your start?

(Alby, I know you explained about writing to the Amish, but did anything else get you started with writing/receiving letters as well?)
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Im old enough to remember when people still wrote letters to each other as a means of communication (and I'm not that old it really want that long ago) also see my post about my friend from high school 😇
 
Alby

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Alby said:
we live in a capitalist society we have all the crap


If my Mom was alive she would be getting handwritten letters!
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See, if this was handwritten there wouldn't be that weird typo at the top of this post that isn't meant to be there! Five mins to edit posts is not long enough!
 
seoulsearch

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Alby said:
The last pen pal I had was when I was fifteen in high school. I didn't have a lot of friends and my best friend at that time suddenly moved away. We kept in touch with letters and tape cassette recordings of ourselves and musings. Like one way chats that you wait two weeks for a response to! we would also send gifts to each other . That actually kept our friendship alive for quite some time until it eventually dissolved
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I seriously think I'm having flashbacks here.

I had a friend I used to communicate with via letters and cassette tapes, too! And they weren't those amateur 60-minute cassette tapes, either-- they were the high falutin', this-is-serious-business, 45-minutes-on-each side tapes.

Seriously.

Looking back, I have NO idea what two 15-year-old girls could have POSSIBLY had to talk about for 90 minutes for each exchange, but somehow we totally worked it like a boss! :cool:
 
Alby

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seoulsearch said:
I seriously think I'm having flashbacks here.

I had a friend I used to communicate with via letters and cassette tapes, too! And they weren't those amateur 60-minute cassette tapes, either-- they were the high falutin', this-is-serious-business, 45-minutes-on-each side tapes.

Seriously.

Looking back, I have NO idea what two 15-year-old girls could have POSSIBLY had to talk about for 90 minutes for each exchange, but somehow we totally worked it like a boss! :cool:
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My friend and I (two lads) basically had our own dialect in both writing and talking. you know those things that only you two actually understand. we would just talk sh*t on both sides of the cassettes and it was never boring. i also have no idea what it is we had to talk about. I think girls were a big topic tho haha
 
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Alby said:
My friend and I (two lads) basically had our own dialect in both writing and talking. you know those things that only you two actually understand. we would just talk sh*t on both sides of the cassettes and it was never boring. i also have no idea what it is we had to talk about. I think girls were a big topic tho haha
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Sounds like you and Seoulsearch were creative! All we did with cassettes back then was record mixtapes and "DJ" the music! :LOL:
 
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I miss having close male friends/brothers to write letters to tbh 😢
 
seoulsearch

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JesusLives said:
Or you could go way back and get a stone chisel and hammer....lol
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I was in a shop recently that sold good old-fashioned quill pens and bottles of ink.

I almost bought a set in nods to the genuine art of letter-writing...

And then I thought about how much I love my G2 smooth-writing gel pens.

Somehow, a feather just couldn't compare.
 
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