I have done some of my finest work Texting....;)

BUBBA LOVE
LAKE

especially love letters. i recently moved to fiji as a peace corps volunteer and i began writing as soon as i stepped off the plane. i had very little access to computers during our three month training so writing was my only option. ive written about 50 letters in four months and i love it though i've recently fallen off. mostly because it began to be too emotional. especially since people rarely wrote back. added to my loneliness.

however, the 15 or so love letters i wrote are among the best pieces of art i've ever created. the lovely woman only wrote me once, but knowing that my words made her smile and feel closer to me was more than enough to make up for the carpal tunnel.

keondra.

I awakened to a quarter moon sitting in the still dark skies of predawn with you in my thoughts.
Wondering if you too, were gazing upon this sliver of light and thinking of me as well. Wishing to
feel your breath caress my neck as we embrace to greet a new day. To look into the blue of your eyes,
knowing as the sun rises, the sky will borrow their beauty.
Yeah, I am not very good at this.

Peace and love!

This reminds me of that old song:
I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
And make believe it came from you.

I'm gonna write words oh so sweet
They're gonna knock me off my feet
A lotta kisses on the bottom
I'll be glad I got 'em.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoeT9gmwl7Q

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My Dear Professor Crandall
I wish to inform you that the art of letter writing is not dead despite the ever increasing invasion of technology. I have been writing letters to friends and family for many years and I love nothing more than pouring out my thoughts, feelings and general news to whosoever wishes to read them.

I think writing letters whether by hand or e-mail, offers us the unique opportunity to talk about and say things in a way that may not always be possible by phone or in person. You can pour out heartfelt feelings so much more eloquently by writing than you may be able to do verbally. I don't think it matters what method you choose to use or what language either as long as you are communicating in a way that enables both writer and the reader to gain pleasure. Sometimes it is the implied that affects the reader far more than the obvious. A little titillation can be extremely thrilling especially if the wordplay includes hidden meaning or suggestion or something more. If it is printed or printable all the better.

I began writing thank you letters as a child, moved on to writing weekly letters when I was at school and I have continued doing so ever since. In fact, I maintain a friendship with a Canadian friend I have known for 15 years pretty much by letter and more recently by e-mail. I have only met her three times in our friendship. We wanted to continue in the tradition of the likes of Elizabeth Gaskell and The Bronte sisters and although our language and letter content is not the same, it suits us well enough.

As to letter writing for Lesbian pen pals, well you can conjure up such great images on paper or via e-mail/internet sites that you may not be able to verbally for fear of being overheard or misconstrued. I am not a lesbian but I have made a great many friends writing on lesbian websites. So much so that I get complaints when I stop my scribbles (maybe I should admit to typing instead).

Reading the comments already made to this post, I presume I am taking this article a little too seriously but I feel that writing is something that should be encouraged as a means of personal expression far more than it seems to be in this world of visual saturation and media overload.

I trust in the power of the pen (and keyboard), I thrill at the thought of mail, and I relish communication in any format. From one who lives in a literary county where the likes of Thomas Hardy waxed lyrical, where Mary Shelley created monsters, and Enid Blyton conjured up Noddy/Big Ears and her famous five went everywhere on jolly japes, I hope my missive encourages further writing.

Best wishes and a long and prosperous life to you all.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but you don't 'arf get dizzy!

What beautiful letter you have quilled. Although it has always been my inner desire to be fully sensually Victorian in my letter-writing, indeed, no soul, far or near, shares that passion to indulge or be indulgent.

Methink those rolling hills shall heave its impassioned sigh of sisterly love as near as only in my dream.

Yours truly,
CM

charles dickens says it well, she'll vish there was more, and that's the art o' letter-writin'

i recommend:

Dear Sappho: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters by Kay Turner

also, i love getting and sending mail. if any ourcharters are interested in pen-paling and finding cool, cheap japanese gifts in a nearby mailbox, well let me know!

I cannot wait until you draw your New England Hills around my homosocial spaces.

fondest, dearly, sweetly

yours