Living with digital communication nowadays we maybe sometimes remember with sadness of the days of old, when a hand-written letter was brought to us by a postman. The rite of opening, reading fast at first time, slowly a second, maybe a third time …
Guestbook Originally uploaded by sugarpacketchad
this post “LETTERS” originally was the only idea
of my friend Wolfgang Hermann, Austria:
photo THE LETTER by http://www.flickr.com/people/wolfgangfoto/
Wolfgang Hermann comments (in German):
eine inzwischen veralterte form der mitteilung
Please Mr. Postman look and see, if there’s a letter, a letter for me,
you got to wait a minute, check out if there’s a letter for me, please Mr. Postman …
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yay for real mail! one of my fave things!
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sent to my group BLOG IT:
title=”coll099 Smith Letter” by Rocky Pix, on Flickr
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the congratulation in an old romantic way from 1913
foto siehe unten…
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One of my good friend has launched an excelent and usefull internet project.
I would recognize if you spread news on http://theworldantiques.com to your friends and colleagues about one million page.
Thank you beforehand!
Paul
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sent to my group BLOG IT:
title=”Letter from Beatle George Harrison’s mother Louise – page 2″
by sctatepdx, on Flickr
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sent to my group BLOG IT:
title=”letters to Baudelaire (I)”
by The Black Cat Photography, on Flickr
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title=”Letter from Sarah Haley to her husband (2)”
by LJMcK, on Flickr
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sent to my group BLOG IT:
title=”letters” by Muffet, on Flickr
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by co author Wolfgang Hermann, Austria:
title=”old congratulation card from 1913″
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title=”Lettering Play”
by carmelscribe, on Flickr
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P.S.:
mostly I like the aphorism:
DON’T STUMBLE OVER SOMETHING
BEHIND YOU (from Fred Babb?)
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I’ve written a lot about Thoreau,
so I am pleased to find the quotation:
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GO CONFIDENTLY IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR DREAMS.
LIVE THE LIFE YOU’VE IMAGINED!
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This is my favorite post! ~~ jackie paulson
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frizztext, German:
meine tochter in berlin, die gerade versucht in architektur zu promovieren, muss kistenweise handschriften in sütterlinschrift in moderne digitale kommunikation übertragen – eine heiden-arbeit – die aber auch sehr hilft, in das milieu jener zeit zurückzufinden …
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Very nice idea… 🙂
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Greetings! The attribution for “Don’t stumble over something behind you.” is not from Fred Babb. This quote is often attributed to Seneca. I could not verify that, so I did not include it. I should have attributed it to “Unknown.”
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My saying is if you put a postage stamp onto the letter or envelope we KNOW it will be delivered by our postman. Almost all other communication is not, guaranteed. Thanks for this because the postman is an era that is on the way out. I love snail mail, uncomfortably the world is going digital.
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title=”Letter from William H. Christman
to His Mother, Mary A. Christman,
04/03/1864
by The U.S. National Archives, on Flickr
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title=”Letter From a Grandson”
by dok1, on Flickr
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