write a letter to a friend or relative living in some other city telling him about how your life has changed due to covid 19 pandemic.
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Explanation:
That was where I often wrote letters in a notebook with detachable pages, using my favorite pen. There is a cohort of people located around the world with whom I exchange letters in English and Italian, and I’ve never shied from zipping off comments or suggestions to businesses, journalists, politicians or whomever.
Sometimes others would notice and remark about the “lost art of letter writing.” It is a lament that goes back to the ancient world. Even the Roman statesman Cicero complained that no one wrote letters anymore.
The letter’s time as a serious art form may well have passed, and may or may not ever return. Yet there is no rule that says letters must be public-facing literary endeavors; that they must be beautifully handwritten; or that you must fill several pages with scintillating prose and sagely wisdom.
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Indeed, those pressures often serve as excuses, just as we excuse ourselves from going to the gym or taking up yoga or meditation or any of the things we say we want to do. The most famous excuse for not writing letters is, “I don’t have time.”
Well, a great many of us have time now.
At this writing, cities and states across the United States are on varying degrees of lockdown, with people directed to stay home as much as possible. The devastating scenes we have received from China and Italy of hospitals overwhelmed with critically ill patients, and mass graves in Iran, presage what is in store for us soon.
Whether we are fortunate enough to have a home stocked with jigsaw puzzles, games and books, privileged enough to have collections of DVDs or subscriptions for streaming movies, there is likely time now to write some letters. Their value is more than many estimate.
An Okemos, Michigan teen is writing letters like this one to senior citizens living in nursing homes and similar facilities who can't see their families because of visitation restrictions.
An Okemos, Michigan teen is writing letters like this one to senior citizens living in nursing homes and similar facilities who can't see their families because of visitation restrictions.
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Seniors in nursing homes and inmates in prisons are cut off from visitors, but they can receive letters. A missive as humble as a paragraph jotted on an index card can make someone else’s day. Yet this is just the beginning.
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Write another paragraph (if you want — you make the rules in this game) describing something that made you laugh. Or write, “Here is something I wonder about,” and then
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Dear online friend,
I think it’s fair to assume something is bothering you right now. I have no idea what that may be but I need you to know everything is going to be okay. Today, everything may seem scary, from the world, to your school, to your home. I need you to know however, that things are going to start looking up. You will find what you love, you will be loved and you can find happiness because you are a good person. No matter what a voice in or out of your head can say, you are good enough and you can find happiness no matter how long that may take, you just need to hold on until the storm passes. No matter what though, you will always have a friend at Kids Help Phone.
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From, Luke