A Birthday Card from Mom                      by Sarah Brown

My thoughts have wandered over the changing handwriting curriculum in primary education.  With email and texting, even with social media, sharing personal information is easy. Yet, writing requires focus, motor skills, and grammar off the cuff. To sit and write a letter or note is an act of time and love, as much as skill. With fewer letters mailed and technology dominating our personal exchange between one another, I find that my personal correspondences with my parents, friends, and teachers are the most revealing of our human condition and my vulnerability. As cursive writing and handwriting in general falls into some phase of obsolescence, the letters and notes are evidence that perhaps we will find an ancient art reborn again.