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 chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it? Train Song I believe most of us are familiar with the stories of Winnie the Pooh and even Calvin and Hobbes. It is a story of a little boy or a little girl who has imaginary friends and adventures within their imagination. We do that with music as well. I bought a crate of random albums. I was glad that…
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 