As I stood chatting with a group of friends, the subject of letter writing came up. One of the girls made a light hearted comment about me being a victorian lady, something I took to be a compliment. I told her I would write her a letter and the next day I fulfilled my promise. I wrote to her of my high regard for her as being a beautiful woman both inside and out. To make the quality of the letter equal to my regard, I worked to make the letter beautiful in word and appearance. Today when I saw her I was greeted with a hug of thanks. She expressed how wonderful it was to receive a letter, giving me the impression she had not received a personal, handwritten letter in quite some time. This was expected, and is in part why I write letters to friends. What was not expected was the effect it had on her young daughter. The girl, at just the age for loving to write notes to friends, was impressed by my handwriting and has been practicing her cursive ever since. Talking about cursive with my friend and her daughter, I was reminded that not only is letter writing a lost art, so is cursive. Beautiful, legible handwriting is not valued today as it once was and perhaps, through letter writing and applying myself to beauty of appearance as well as content, I can make a small contribution to the restoration of both. I am encouraged that there is now one more child aspiring to beautiful writing.
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Recently I was made aware that many schools no longer teach cursive writing. I was shocked and dismayed to hear that so I started asking some of my customers and almost all of them confirmed that, indeed, their children are taught to print and are not taught cursive. Some of the parents have taken it upon themselves to teach their youngsters cursive but most seem to think it isn't an important skill. What a shame. I find a hand written letter in well formed cursive to be a thing of beauty. I wonder how long it will be until cursive handwriting is considered an absolute antiquity.
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