So tonight I was on Twitter, like I am every other moment of every other day, and I started "talking" to a lovely girl, Kismet, from The Unreal Bride. We were chit chatting about packages and how great it is when we receive one. Then, she opened up a can of worms when she said something to the effect of "I'd be happy with a letter." And so it began....
We discussed this whole letter writing thing and I decided that I'd send her a letter. Why not? I don't really know her. Only started tweeting with her tonight, but what the heck? Everyone appreciates a beautiful letter. We decided, along with my dear friend Steph {@stephbubble}, that we're going to start a handwriting revolution. I've aptly named the 3 of us, The Handwritten Brigade. In an age of social media, emails, and texts, a handwritten letter is beautiful, special, and can be treasured well after the letter's arrived.
So, tomorrow I will design some special, beautiful stationery and I'm going to write a heartfelt letter to 2 girls in 2 different countries, and hope that it makes them smile. But along with that letter, I'm going to send them each a blank card. And I'm going to ask each of them to pay it forward by handwriting a note, in that blank card, and sending it off to someone else with another blank card for that person to write their own note. And on and on I hope it goes.
My challenge to you is that you do the same. It only takes 5 minutes to write a note to someone you care about, even just to let them know you're thinking about them. And when you do this, I encourage you to pay it forward. Can we do this?
Let me know if you want to be a part of the Handwritten Brigade.
Let's do this.