Dear Smith…
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Tis the season to hear from your third grade teacher, old pals living abroad or your second cousin twice removed—or something. The Christian Science Monitor had a great story about the importance of Christmas cards and how these “personal connections… are more important than ever” because they “serve as a barometer of people’s lives.”
Word.
I love getting a year’s worth of hand-written gossip—oh, and the Hallmark card is nice too.
You can check out Marilyn Gardner’s piece here.
Yes — Christmas/holiday cards are important, no? They’re the one time a year, in some cases, that I reach out to certain old friends that I may no longer see in person each year. It’s like a ritual of affirmation that someone is still in your life. And there’s something about that real, three-dimensional card. Maybe it’s the physicality of it, or the fact that it’s marginally harder to select, inscribe and stamp a card than it is to fire off an email; it makes a connection that email just can’t. Anyway. They’re a little thing that’s also a big deal, and I like that.