colector: [JournalWriting] Re: Another newbie, another Christina

--- In JournalWriting@yahoogroups.com, Christina
<westernslopeacupuncture@...> wrote:
> I am not doing
> that here partly because I don't know where they got
> them... (the files section of the list maybe? I have
> not been there yet.)

Some have pointed out sites to get them off of but I think
for the most part many of us just see what someone else posts
then cut and paste our own responses LOL!

Really, new folks,... you get the most out of the group by
just jumping in to the middle of anything that strikes a
chord.

> Apparently, when I am angry, I am funny...
> the angrier the funnier, I guess.

Quick! Someone say something to piss her off :D.

> Is there anything to that idea
> about the handwriting being more "powerful" than
> typing? Or is that a myth from earlier times when
> most journal-keepers wrote by hand? (I really, really
> want it not to be so, BTW, not the least because my
> cursive handwriting has degraded to the point where
> even *I* have trouble deciphering it sometimes ;-)

I do believe that the handwritten word can carry more weight
than another form. If at the very least, there is a
subliminal effect on the reader. A good part of it is
subconscious... like the way a particular color or scent
affects you. The first glance of a handwritten letter
has a feeling, an atmosphere hard to put into words,
like the first time you walk into a room.

Handwriting, I believe, is an art form. And because
of all the little nuances in the formation of letters,
pressure, the spacing, the pace, the angles... it is completely
UNIQUE to every person. How can it NOT convey something of
the person behind it? Or be anywhere as interesting?

Honestly, folks... what is more intriguing? A pristine
antique postcard... or the same post card someone has
written something on and sent?

Mary, CT