New Blog Series Alert❣️

Welcome to my corner of the world. It's been a while since I've done an author insights post, hasn't it? Well, It took a while, but we finally have a new series 🎉. I'm not sure how many articles I will be doing on various topics or how frequent I will be posting them, but I hope you might be as excited as I to dive into all things ... 🥁

In my Bookish Opinion!

Okay, well, that's.... *super...stupendous...spectacular? I say*...boring.

*Oh.🥺*

Well, I hope not, lol, and I'd love if you'll stay long enough to ponder my humble thoughts and sometimes slightly wild ideas. Through this new series, I hope that I may offer you a smidgen of encouragement, a dash of insight, a dose of reality, and a spoonful of amusement that will leave you better off than if you hadn't read it.

Lets start off shall we with today's topic, shall we?

Grab you're favorite mug, a cozy blanket, and settle by the fire as we discuss...

You've Got Mail 💌

Imagine with me for a moment...

A flame flickers burning up the night beside the bent head of a woman. She dips her quill into the inkwell to write the final line and her signature with a flourish on the cream paper. Heating some red wax, she lovingly presses the stamp to seal it with more than just a melted blob. She seals it with her, love, hopes, dreams, memories that she hopes to pass on to the family she left behind. The family that waits eagerly somewhere back east... to get this letter.

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I think that it's sad that letter writing is becoming a lost art. A letter means you care. That you took precious time for someone. I can remember when my Nana would send letters. They never failed to be three or four pages long, and I loved them.

As I grew older, I will admit that I never was very good at replying to letters 😅. It had fallen very much by the wayside actually until this year.

Brought on by the disaster of the postal strikes.

It was then that I realized I really took the mail service for granted. Doing a bit of research, I learned that the main reason behind the strikes was their failure to make their costs (in other words close to bankruptcy). And why is this? Since the 2010s, there has been a steady decline in parcels and letters.

Did you read that? In letters 🥺.

I don't know about you, but it always gives me a hopeful, joyful feeling to know I have... Something. Coming. Someday. Soon. Whether that be your book mail from Amazon or a hand-written letter. So, I've started doing my part to try to save it 😅. And I think the rest of us should too. Maybe we will really do it. All I know is we should try.

Again, there are so many reasons to write. Our letters have so much potential to bring joy to others. Maybe there wouldn't be so many lonely people that feel trapped in a screen because all their friends are online. And there's nothing like the warm glow in your heart that comes from knowing that a friend will get a nice surprise 🎁. Giving always brings gladness, don't you agree?

Let's do it one letter at a time!

Thanks for reading!

Bookishly,

Ellie