Each of my close friends from high school went to the a different college. Some went as far south as Tennessee, while others went out west to Colorado. Since we don't get to see each other as often as we used to we like to keep in touch by talking on the phone or on Facebook, but sometimes we also write letters to each other. To me a letter has always had a more personal quality to it than other forms of communication, especially Facebook. You know that that person took the time to sit down and write something specifically for you to read. A letter is also more personal because it is written in the person's handwriting rather than the universal font of something typed on a computer screen. The value of a letter again is more substantial because it takes time to get to its destination. Rather than instantaneously flying through cyber space, a letter travels the distance. It physically touches the hands of the writer, then the hands of the people who sort the mail, then those of the people who deliver the mail, and then finally your own. A letter is not art but every letter has a message that has a shared importance to both the individual receiving it and the person that wrote it.
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