A Letter Writing Revival Exercise

H e t oday… gone
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t om r ow
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• Email
• Texting
• Facebook
• Myspace
• Twitter

O of si ght … out of
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What email or text do you have saved that was sent to you?
How can you share your twitter page at a ballgame or social event?

D you bl og?
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• What happens to the hundreds of posts
you’ve written after you’re gone?
• Do you leave a request in your will to
maintain your domain name?
• Who will hold, smell, and read your writing
decades from now?
• Will there be someone that waits watching
the mailbox for days to hear from you?
• Will there be physical mailboxes?

Will any of the electronic
writing you’ve created survive
and will anyone ever be able to
find it even if it does?

A st or y t o consi der …
Gerald Henry Stoner Virginia Eileen Gassert
1951
dad mom

Davey 1951

Fi f t y year s l at er …

Let’s slow down time…
Travel to a different place…
Choose a style of paper with intentionality…
Select a special pen…
Feel the drag of your writing instrument across the paper…
Consider the following stems…

An I nvi t at i on…
• Write a letter…
 To someone you’ve lost
 To someone you’ve found
 To someone who has hurt you
 To someone that has helped you
 To a pet
 To a place
 To a person you deeply love
 To a person you have dark feelings about
 To a special tree, building, barn or smell
 To a childhood toy
 To someone you’ve seen but not spoken to
 To a dream lost
To a dream found
 To a disease
 To

Groups of threes

Your Letters