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 lesson you’ve learned recently that shifted your perspective? Spending time with children will reset one’s perspective in a transformative way. Certainly, not for everybody. But for me it works. I spent yesterday afternoon with the kids at a playground new to me, I watched our youngest climb high ladders to reach unscalable sliding…
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 