Letters

Despite the fact that I use computers all the time, I still love snail-mail and am often found buying stamps in bulk. I know which mail boxes have 9 o'clock pick-up so that the mail will get to the recipient a day sooner. I love e-mail messages, phone calls and keeping in touch but I do love the sound of mail coming through the mail slot of the bundle being put between the front doors. The bills I could do without.
I know when the mail person has decided to go slow and not work so hard. Those days, I don't get mail and that is usually days like the Thursday before Easter and a few other holidays. Normally, I get mail everyday and have the elastics from the large bundles to prove it. I keep the elastics for bundling flyers that I distribute. (Working with music groups also keeps me busy.)
Today, I received the kind of news that will encourage me to keep writing my letters and even try to put them on nice paper even when they are word processed. I type faster than write. It is easier to correct mistakes as well. I think faster than I write and forget that I did not yet write a word.
Went to a visitation this afternoon and the daughter of the woman who had passed away told me that her mother had enjoyed my latest letter so much that she had her daughter read it to her 3 times and then she had her dial so that she could call me to let me know how much she had appreciated the letter. So nice to know that those letters and cards matter. I will be back at the mail box tomorrow morning.
We should all try to remember that sometimes it is little things that help bring pleasure to someone else. Let's take the time.