Handwritten
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Lost Art of the Handwritten Note" Philip Hensher writes, "In a British survey carried out in June, it was discovered that the average time since an adult wrote anything at all by hand was 41 days. One in three people surveyed said that they hadn't written anything by hand for at least six months."
There's something about writing with a pen— whether it's to write a letter or a list or copy down some quotation from a book. And there's something special about using a fountain pen and real ink not an ink cartridge.
I can sit down with a cup of tea and reread a letter. It feels like a visit. Receiving a card with a handwritten note beats a card that arrives in your email account.
And I love taking out my small Moleskin notebook at the end of the year and reading some of my book notes:
"God turns us over to what we worship." Mark Richard
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
"Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language." Rainer Maria Rilke
Nonet Form ( for a poem)
line 1—9 syllables
line 2—8 syllables
line 3—7 syllables
line 4—6 syllables
line 5—5 syllables
line 6—4 syllables
line 7—3 syllables
line 8—2 syllables
line 9—1 syllable
I haven't written the poem, but it's a reminder that I liked the challenge of this form.
135 West 135th Street
first black bookstore in Harlem 'George Young's Book Exchange' came to be known as the "Mecca of Literature Pertaining to Colored People" Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
From Winter Harbor Historical Society Building
"This typewriter, The American, belonged to Captain Thomas R. Hammond, Winter Harbor, Maine. 1876 typewriter. One of the earliest U.S. typewriters with the keys resting in slots in a revolving disk was shown at the Centennial exhibit in 1876."
"Let's take the long way home." Gail Caldwell
"Edge of my umbrageous forest." Verlyn Kliinkenborg ( that quote sent me to the dictionary)
Each note reminds me of a book or newspaper or place.
Gilbert White saved many of his household receipts which are in Houghton Library. Reading a recipe in his own handwriting with his own flourish is almost like sitting in his kitchen.
"To save one must value. And to thrown out, one must value moving on." Molly Peacock
"To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawig at your bones." Terry Tempest Williams
"God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze."
"The depth is in the surface." William Matthew
"We live by inches and only sometimes see the full dimension."Adrienne Rich
And it goes on and on...all in ink.
There's something about writing with a pen— whether it's to write a letter or a list or copy down some quotation from a book. And there's something special about using a fountain pen and real ink not an ink cartridge.
I can sit down with a cup of tea and reread a letter. It feels like a visit. Receiving a card with a handwritten note beats a card that arrives in your email account.
And I love taking out my small Moleskin notebook at the end of the year and reading some of my book notes:
"God turns us over to what we worship." Mark Richard
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
"Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language." Rainer Maria Rilke
Nonet Form ( for a poem)
line 2—8 syllables
line 3—7 syllables
line 4—6 syllables
line 5—5 syllables
line 6—4 syllables
line 7—3 syllables
line 8—2 syllables
line 9—1 syllable
I haven't written the poem, but it's a reminder that I liked the challenge of this form.
135 West 135th Street
first black bookstore in Harlem 'George Young's Book Exchange' came to be known as the "Mecca of Literature Pertaining to Colored People" Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
From Winter Harbor Historical Society Building
"This typewriter, The American, belonged to Captain Thomas R. Hammond, Winter Harbor, Maine. 1876 typewriter. One of the earliest U.S. typewriters with the keys resting in slots in a revolving disk was shown at the Centennial exhibit in 1876."
"Let's take the long way home." Gail Caldwell
"Edge of my umbrageous forest." Verlyn Kliinkenborg ( that quote sent me to the dictionary)
Each note reminds me of a book or newspaper or place.
Gilbert White saved many of his household receipts which are in Houghton Library. Reading a recipe in his own handwriting with his own flourish is almost like sitting in his kitchen.
"To save one must value. And to thrown out, one must value moving on." Molly Peacock
"To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawig at your bones." Terry Tempest Williams
"God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze."
"The depth is in the surface." William Matthew
"We live by inches and only sometimes see the full dimension."Adrienne Rich
And it goes on and on...all in ink.
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