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 a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life? Statistics are like bikinis: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital“. To take it one step farther, focusing on the statistics, we tend to ignore everything that surrounds that present moment. And this picture it’s going to be beautiful day in the…
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.