Postcards: Tweeting the Old Fashioned Way

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. 
~ Author Unknown

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witter did not invent the abbreviated public thought ~ although keeping it to 140 characters might be new.

Before Twitter, there were. . .postcards.  Costing only a couple of cents plus postage, you could scribble a quick hello from wherever you were (usually some exotic locale) and send them to envious friends and relatives.  But make the content good: there is only so much room on the back!

My letter for Day 29 of 31 Days of Letters is a postcard to my dear pen friend Carol Ann:



Postcard of the Blue Ridge near Clark County, VA

The biggest issue for me is that some postcards are really beautiful renditions of the places I’ve been ~ and I end up keeping them!  So this time I bought two: one to send and one to keep.

Here are some other examples of those snail mail “tweets” of old 

Oremus pro invicem,

~ Mikaela

Do you still send postcards?

Writing Challenge: A Month of Letters

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.  You can't reread a phone call. 

~ Liz Carpenter

Really, nothing beats going to the mail box and finding a handwritten letter tucked between the utility bills, political posturing, and snail-mail spam.  Even better when that handwritten envelope is unexpected.  So it was with great joy that I read Tia’s post (of Depression Cookies fame) about the Month of Letters Challenge, brought to you by Mary Robinette Kowal. 

The rules are simple: during February, snail mail at least one item during the days the post office is open. And make sure you write back to everyone who writes back to you.  For more info, visit Mary’s website.

With several pen pals, one would think I had enough letters to mail for more than twenty-four days.  Perhaps ~ we’ll see how it goes.  I signed up ~ join me, and if you’re so inclined, drop me an email with your POB and leave the digital world behind for the next month!

Oremus pro invicem,

~ Mikaela