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100% close enough! It's fun to have you here with us!
\(^·^)/~I'll need to update the sidebar I think~I think it's fun to send stuff by post. I have started to send Christmas cards to some friends and family. I'd love to send more but it has gotten really expensive :c
I've been thinking on and off about sending letters but as you, don't know what to write. It also feels a bit.. silly? I don't know if that is the correct word. When I can just send a text. I'd like to send pressed flowers and leafs. Maybe some cool tag/flyer/stuff or a pretty, flat rock.
I'm glad you sent that letter!
Some of my favourite letters were silly. I have letters from old girlfriends that they wrote during boring high school classes 30 years ago. Many of the letters never even get to a point - some are just slice of life/stream of consciousness. The letters become artifacts, though: little time capsules that contain a feeling, an idea, a memory. I have letters from people who are long gone, but when I read the lines I hear the voices of my loved ones as though they were in the room.
oh, this is both lovely and sad to read. Thank you for sharing. I like the idea of them being little time capsules.
Oh I love the idea of sending pressed flowers or little things. It's like little tokens. I would totally love to receive something like that from a friend or family member.
If you are consider doing it already, totally go for it!
And regarding the content of the letter. As I already said in a different comment: i basically wrote about how I don't know what to write. I was also feeling silly and just leaned into it. It was just a short message..barely filling a A5 page.
And if you decide to as a little something like the presses flower, you can write about that, too.
I'll keep this in mind! We have mostly snow and ice here in Sweden right now, so not very fun haha.
I do have a bunch of letters already, so I just need to stuff them :D