Back and Forth

"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company." (Lord Byron)

"Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed in some places in Scotland where I have have stayed when I was a girl, the post came in but once a month,--but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books.  Not the post comes rattling in twice a day, bringing short jerky notes, some without beginning or end, but just a little sharp sentence, which well-bred folks would think too abrupt to be spoken."   (Elizabeth Gaskel, My Lady Ludlow)

"I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, 
and instead tell him something new." (Sigmund Freud)

Frankie lives but a few miles up the road from me,

but her health and age limit her social life.

When I discovered this, I became more intentional about letter writing.

Back and forth; back and forth.

I'm not sure which one of us enjoys it more...

"A little groundhog came up the ramp to my door last week--

Guess he just wanted to say 'hello'--"

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." (Phyllis Theroux)

"Hoping you's will have a nice July 4th.  I'll spend my 4th at home--"

“Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.”  (Scribendi, How to Write a Letter)