A Letter, 1947

 A lovely little envelope with a letter in Danish that was dated August 20, 1947. The envelope is smaller than a regular envelope and feels incredibly soft, as though it is older than it is dated. The letter is folded as though it's a greeting card and our writer ran out of room and wrote upside down on one page of the letter and the ending comments roll back around to the front of the letter. The letter is written what looks like school lined paper.

I miss getting letters. The ones that mean so much to you that you carry it around in your purse or wallet and you have read it so many times it's starting to fall apart along the fold lines. It's so strange to realize that new generations will never have that experience. And no, printing off an email and rereading it doesn't count. Typed words on a page are nearly as personal as a hand written letter.