Handwriting
(Cursive writing)
Today in memory of John Hancock's birthdate (1737).
A call went out a few years ago to celebrate handwriting.
Have you ever received a hand-written note that could
be identified by the way someone always dropped their
words on paper? with pen or pencil?
Here is an image of something Thomas Wolfe wrote.
Visible proof on a vestibule desk that some ghost of memories
remains in that rooming house in NC.
Writers can't help but respond
to such a real presence?
So my poem handwritten. . .
When research says that hand writing things down
can helps generate ideas believe them!
Maybe you will write to someone today, not by
text, not by email, rather with a little pressure on
a sheet of paper signed with your own John Hancock.
Know that that physical moment will be treasured
now and maybe for many years to come--emoticons
have their day and are gone but real words from an
aged hand will never be erased.
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