Food, clothing and books. You didn't think I had finished, did you? There is still more room in my suitcase, and I put in my very special box where I keep some of my stationary. A train ride is perfect for keeping in contact with friends around the world. Not through the fast internet, but the old fashioned way of snail mail letters.
My Japanese Maple carries hundreds of red miracles. I pressed a few and made them into friendship cards.
Some people fear that letter writing is a dying art. I am doing my best to keep it alive.
Two colourful envelopes with my name and address written on by hand were waiting for mw when I spent my few hours at home yesterday. A letter from Dr. Feli in Venezia containing two postcards from Venezia and words of friendship in Dr. Feli's beautiful old fashioned handwriting, and a big, stuffed envelope from a dear friend in US. We have been penpals for about 12 years, have never met but our letters cross each other somewhere over the Atlantic several times a month.
