Letter of the Week
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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? Humor sometimes. I was writing an essay yesterday. The first paragraph is my writing. The second must have picked up by a phone conversation in the other room mixed with one with my son in Berlin. There was a social event in our neighborhood that…
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If you had a time machine and could send just one message to your past self, what would it say? This question makes my head spin around in circles. Very much like this video in my past self would like to see it. Two loose pygmy goats briefly boarded a public transit bus instead of a train…
About the Archivist
This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.