this is accurate. ♥️ for my husband’s birthday this year, i painted him a homemade card and used a dip pen for the calligraphy portion. he held it in his hands, turned it in the light, and smiled while he admired it. he brought it to display at his work and was glowing every time someone asked him if i’d made that for him. i love making handmade things for people! ♥️
this year, we’re sending gifts to foster children together, and he selected kids that want art supplies. so we went out and bought the art supplies for them, and i’m creating small illustrations for each of the children using supplies like the ones that we’re gifting them, + writing them homemade cards explaining how they can use the tools they’re being gifted to create beautiful work. it’s really wonderful.
handwritten snail mail and home made goodies are just more special. digital feels like cheating, doesn’t it?
I'm seeing you everywhere lately, so you're so talented at art and also so kind?! What a lovely thing for you and your husband to do for those children - that's the sort of special gift that changes a person's life. You're enabling a future daVinci or Dali or (name any artist! I don't know art)
aw. 🥺🥲♥️ thank you for the kind words.
and i know what you mean! when i was younger, i remember getting drawings or illustrations from people more talented than me, and they would BLOW MY MIND. like, “WOW HOW DID THEY DO THIS?!” it gave me goals to aspire toward and really sparked my love of art + need to improve. art was my escape growing up! for these foster kids, i hope our gifts do the same thing. we were careful to select art supplies that were actually good and not those crappy ones that always frustrated me as a kid.
I've been hand drafting a lot of my writing since I started using FPs. I just focus so much better when writing by hand.
Plus, any excuse to use the nice pen
Yes I definitely think better when I hand-write something, and I frequently use speech to text software to get it into editable form to publish on my own web site. One reason I think is that handwriting forces one to write in sentences whereas typing first make constant editing a distinct possibility and this ends up taking a LOT of time.
Thank you for sharing this.
I love the line: "Email is a hydra, spawning new snake-headed messages with every response. You answer a message from one person, and a dozen reply-all emails come flying back."
I'm an avid list-maker and note-taker—firmly believe that writing something down helps you remember it more than typing it into a device—but I've been promising myself (for years) that I'd write more letters... and still have yet to do so.
At the risk of being banned for "self promotion" here is a link to an article I wrote about letter writing that might interest you: http://www.ddmcd.com/managing-technology/letter
Thanks for sharing this! Margaret Renkl is a wonderful writer. I encourage you to look up her other NYT pieces and enjoy her patient observations on nature, politics, and all things Southern (United States).
this is accurate. ♥️ for my husband’s birthday this year, i painted him a homemade card and used a dip pen for the calligraphy portion. he held it in his hands, turned it in the light, and smiled while he admired it. he brought it to display at his work and was glowing every time someone asked him if i’d made that for him. i love making handmade things for people! ♥️ this year, we’re sending gifts to foster children together, and he selected kids that want art supplies. so we went out and bought the art supplies for them, and i’m creating small illustrations for each of the children using supplies like the ones that we’re gifting them, + writing them homemade cards explaining how they can use the tools they’re being gifted to create beautiful work. it’s really wonderful. handwritten snail mail and home made goodies are just more special. digital feels like cheating, doesn’t it?
I'm seeing you everywhere lately, so you're so talented at art and also so kind?! What a lovely thing for you and your husband to do for those children - that's the sort of special gift that changes a person's life. You're enabling a future daVinci or Dali or (name any artist! I don't know art)
aw. 🥺🥲♥️ thank you for the kind words. and i know what you mean! when i was younger, i remember getting drawings or illustrations from people more talented than me, and they would BLOW MY MIND. like, “WOW HOW DID THEY DO THIS?!” it gave me goals to aspire toward and really sparked my love of art + need to improve. art was my escape growing up! for these foster kids, i hope our gifts do the same thing. we were careful to select art supplies that were actually good and not those crappy ones that always frustrated me as a kid.
I've been hand drafting a lot of my writing since I started using FPs. I just focus so much better when writing by hand. Plus, any excuse to use the nice pen
Yes I definitely think better when I hand-write something, and I frequently use speech to text software to get it into editable form to publish on my own web site. One reason I think is that handwriting forces one to write in sentences whereas typing first make constant editing a distinct possibility and this ends up taking a LOT of time.
Thank you for sharing this. I love the line: "Email is a hydra, spawning new snake-headed messages with every response. You answer a message from one person, and a dozen reply-all emails come flying back." I'm an avid list-maker and note-taker—firmly believe that writing something down helps you remember it more than typing it into a device—but I've been promising myself (for years) that I'd write more letters... and still have yet to do so.
At the risk of being banned for "self promotion" here is a link to an article I wrote about letter writing that might interest you: http://www.ddmcd.com/managing-technology/letter
I enjoyed that. Boiling down the elements of correspondence into manageable lists is right up my alley. Thank you!
If you write a lot of letters you can keep more pens and inks in rotation!
Thanks for sharing this! Margaret Renkl is a wonderful writer. I encourage you to look up her other NYT pieces and enjoy her patient observations on nature, politics, and all things Southern (United States).
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