For The Love of Letters {part 2}

"And that is what I'd like you to take away from this book--an appreciation for how powerful your words are.  How powerful our language is and how effective the two can be in tangible form.  Letters instigate understanding, change, and closure.  Letters are a chance for all of us to live well beyond our allotted years. They can and will affect the recipient, but what's oftentimes greater (and more surprising) is the effect letters have on the writer--who may be coming face-to-face with his or her thoughts and feelings for the first time.  Letters have been perforning acts--both ordinary and extraordinary--for several hundred millennia and I'd like to make sure they continue to do so."

Samara O'Shea

I should have known when I picked up this book that I would have liked it.  One of the most vibrant, interesting, and intelligent roommates I had in college was a lass named Samara.  (She now writes poetry and plays the cello surrounded with her beautiful children.)

For The Love of Letters

I just finished reading this book by Samara O'Shea.  In the introduction of this book she makes the following statement:

"We might not find our everyday lives too fascinating but our great-grandchildren will, and I'd much rather have them unfold a dusty sample of my enduring words than Google me."

Brilliant!  There are no more precious treasures in this world than to find a hand-written piece of someone's life than a letter or postcard, and I would add a personal journal (my favorite book of letters to my posterity)!

Keep on writing!