"The 'what-ifs?' increase exponentially when your heart is walking around outside of your body wearing Buzz Lightyear light up shoes."
- BlestWithSons
Thursday, August 30, 2007
I wonder if that'll be the title of a book one day. I fear -- unless he's keeping meticulous records -- all of his correspondences will one day be lost.
Seriously.
On the other hand, it's not just him I wonder about (although he's the most likely Thinkling to reach fame through his writing), but I wonder about everyone's missives these days.
When was the last time you actually wrote a letter, sealed an envelope, and dropped it in the mail? If you're like most people I know, you don't do that. You email instead. You blog instead.
I guess it all comes down to whether or not you take the time to archive your digital files, and whether or not those digital files will be easily accessible twenty, thirty, fifty years down the road.
I'd love to peruse some of the emails Jared and I zipped back and forth to each other during our college days. But I didn't save them ...
Did you, Jared?
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1. View From The Pew
- 11/29/-0001 6:00 pm CST
One of the really fun things I've found in studying history (and yes, there are several) is reading letters. When someone is writing for publication, they are much more polished. There's a sense that 'this is going to last. People...
Comments on "The Collected Letters Of Jared C. Wilson":
3. jenny
- 08/31/2007 4:46 pm CDT
I write a letter, seal it in an envelope and actually mail it at least once a week...to the deployed Marine I adopted through Soldiers' Angels (www.soldiersangels.org). :) They can get e-mail too, but it's so much better to hear your name at mail call....
Highly recommended for anyone who wants to support our troops, or just work on their penmanship! ;)
I keep emails going back quite aways (probably 8 years or so, although that doesn't necessarily mean I can get to all of them quickly - email packages have changed and etc . . . )
And, of course, all the blog stuff. I backup Thinklings periodically, so all our posts and comments are pretty safe.
I need to find some of those Thinklings emails, pre-blog. Would be interesting to post snippets from them, no?