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Showing posts with label penpals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label penpals. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Quote of the day
This quote is attributed, on the Internet, to Sydney Smith, an English writer (1771-1845):
With my friends, I want to say something important, something meaningful, so I put off writing those letters until I have time to devote to the art of crafting a letter. With new penpals, or even just fellow snail mailers who may never become penpals, the letters are often simple letters of introduction, which are fairly easy to write.
However, I do believe, it is worth the effort to keep up the correspondences. Good friends are so important.
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."Of course, I wouldn't say correspondences are "impossible" to keep up, but it does take some work. In this project, I have found that it is easier to write a letter to a stranger, someone I've never written to before, such as the many letter writers on the the penpal sites, than it is to write to a friend or even an established penpal.
With my friends, I want to say something important, something meaningful, so I put off writing those letters until I have time to devote to the art of crafting a letter. With new penpals, or even just fellow snail mailers who may never become penpals, the letters are often simple letters of introduction, which are fairly easy to write.
However, I do believe, it is worth the effort to keep up the correspondences. Good friends are so important.
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