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After I comment, I’m going to order some monogrammed stationary. It’s been way too long since I’ve had my own.

I am a stationary & paper collector. I have a few aged, but clean pieces my great grandmothers stationary and some from my parents’—W for Welch c. 1963.

When I cleaned out my step-father’s house after my mom died I found generations of letters, correspondence, postcards. At least full 10 boxes. They ranged from ‘it’s beautiful here and we’re having a great time’ to ‘if you want to repossess the Buick know we are divorced and you’ll find him at the bar on ** Street most nights’. Mail isn’t personal anymore. We text. We text and say, is now a good time to call. It’s a totally different era.

When you described your location I couldn’t help but imagine you forest bathing. I wanted to know the Japanese word for it, “Forest bathing, also known as shinrin-yoku in Japanese, is a therapeutic practice that involves spending time in nature to connect with it through your senses. The goal is to be calm and quiet, and to live in the present moment.”

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Now the song, “I’m going to sit right down and wrote myself a letter” by the Ink Spots is stuck in my head as I get up to have coffee and sourdough with butter and strawberry jam. 💕😘💌

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Forest bathing! Yes it works.

That song is now stuck in my head as I read your post.!

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I'm now stuck singing it too 😂😂😂

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I’m laughing about your monogrammed stationery — such a throwback, I think, but I do get the sense that some of us (all from a certain point in time) have a memory of that. What a fascinating treasure trove of letters and notes it sounds like you found in your mother’s things. Wow! Thank you for the forest bathing note — shinrin-yoku. Great emoji depiction, too! Love that. — I had never heard the Ink Spots song (that others agreed with you about). Too funny. Thanks for reading - and good to see you today.

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