A dying art

I've just found the most wonderful website.
It is called letters of note and every day they post a new letter from some interesting person or other. I've just lost a couple of hours browsing and it makes me want to sen letters to everyone i know. We may live in the digital age, but i think email has as many downsides as it has perks. Yes it is faster, but emails don't last like letters do.

This one is kind of fascinating.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/02/john-lennon-signed-my-album.html

This one makes me happy.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/02/what-does-all-this-stuff-about-flying.html

This one made me cry.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/it-was-hard-to-give-five-sons-to-navy.html

This one is really beautiful.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/thousands-of-other-daddies-went-too.html

When i was in the States this past October we visited my godparent's house and Kelly, my godmother, had a big box of letters and notes that my mum had sent her from when they were about 11 right up until about a week before i was born. I spent most of the weekend sitting on the sofa reading them. I felt like i was getting to know my mum as a kid instead of as my mother, and it was amazing. If email or facebook had been around back then i would never have seen any of them.
It makes me sad to think that my children won't have a big box of all the stupid notes i send to Kelsea that they can find in an attic when they're 21.
Who knows though, maybe they'll read this blog...