Let Handwriting Live

It’s easy to forget, in this age of instant messaging and rapid-fire emails, that there was once a time when letters arrived days, even weeks, after they were written. And yet, in that waiting, there was a kind of magic, a slow unfolding of thought and feeling that seems to have vanished in our current world of typing thumbs and blue ticks. Handwritten letters, it seems, belong to another era. But I believe we still need them, now more than ever.