When did you last send a postcard?

Reading: The Lost Art of Postcard Writing by Charles Simic http://bit.ly/oOz2OY

  1. Aren't tweets just abbreviated postcards to the world? RT @nybooks When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
  2. @nybooks For my part, in June -- though apparently my handwriting is such that no one who received them could read them.
  3. Yesterday, let's bring it back RD @nybooks When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
  4. Why, just last week. Does that make me middle aged or elderly? RT @nybooks When did you last send a postcard? bit.ly/oOz2OY
  5. @nybooks oh, my last postcard was sent many years ago. So many I can't remember.
  6. @nybooks Today I send four cards from Bad Reichenhall in the German Alps to kind people who still do not live all day in a virtual world.
  7. .@nybooks a month ago, from the Solomon Islands.
  8. @nybooks to my 92-year-old grandad who lives in Clare, Ireland. I sent him one from Cannes. He had never heard of the place.
  9. @nybooks in early June, while on a roadtrip through rural southern California, sleeping in my rental car, researching a piece of writing.
  10. @nybooks I literally unlearned handwriting. Only reluctantly do I send anything by royal mail.
  11. @nybooks Two weeks ago, from Edinburgh to friends in the US and Australia. I should do that more often.
  12. @nybooks sent a post card from Indonesia to Australia in week 1 of a 3 month trip and beat it home. Gave up after that.
  13. @JohanOosterman @nybooks ....hate postcards .. Too 'virtual' for my taste ... Real direct human engagement much better ... Or twitter maybe?
  14. @nybooks There are few things as pleasing as receiving a postcard. I had 2 last month, each is pinned to my notice board.
  15. @nybooks Last year, from Vatican City, to my friend, a former nun. I wanted her to see the Vatican stamps.
  16. @nybooks Last week. I send one a week to my mother who has Alzheimer's to remind her that she used to live here.
  17. @nybooks My mum still wants one every time I go abroad, have given up posting them and just hand them over in person. Latest from #Bulgaria
  18. @nybooks have a drawer full of postcards from travels around the world; couldn't find stamps and/or post office for any. And yet I keep them
  19. @nybooks I just mailed 18 postcards. One to each of my new kindergarten students! It may be the only handwritten thing they ever see !
  20. @nybooks sent ten or more out as I do every summer, in the tradition of shochuu mimai, Japanese seasonal letter writing.

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