Quote Originally Posted by wiggin View Post
.... I have read with delight the letters my grandfather and grandmother wrote each other during WWII, but I doubt the same opportunity would be available to my grandchildren. It's a real shame, IMO - we spend so little time working to put our thoughts into a coherent and thoughtful order, let alone expressing our truest hopes and desires to our loved ones and colleagues. I doubt the solution is to take up letter-writing again (or maybe it is?), but it really made me think.
Letter-writing may not be a solution but it's still a good and worthy thing! There's nothing quite like personal letters, written by hand and put on paper. They draw the reader in, just by touching paper and turning pages. And there's a fragrance, a scent of paper that can't be replicated by any digital thing.

It's also the most intimate form of communication. It can't be cached or tracked or transferred to 'the cloud', or shared with just anyone. The hand-written letter remains special and unique.