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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What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street? I got runs occasionally, with the sole purpose of finding something, then writing about it. But that’s how it happens with long distance running. You find some interesting things. Deep in Forest Park our running group found a family living deep in the woods,…
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.
My Pictures Of You 