In a gray box inside my closet, I have a thick pile of love letters I plan to keep forever. And there’s something extra special about a handwritten letter. As fragile as handwritten letters can be, many of us tend to keep them a long time — much longer than we keep most of our digital communications. Clearly, that’s something we’re losing with the decline of the handwritten letter: the ability to know more deeply the people we came from and who we once were. I was inspired by my mother’s letter to her parents when I sat down to write my letter to her.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 25, 2023 17:20 UTC