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 sacrifices have you made in life? In baseball, the batter deliberately makes an out to move up other runners on base. Thus helping the team and not helping their individual batting average. Batting average is a measure of performance for professional baseball players often used in contract negotiations. That’s what sacrifice. It’s about in…
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.