New York Times story, “The Found Art of Thank You Notes”… writing notes = better sleep, happy & stress-free.

www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/fashion/the-found-art-of-thank-you-notes.html?_r=0

Thank you Laura Segura-Mueller … Scott Matlins … Sherry Stern …

Franklin “Biff” Levy … Meryl Marshall-Daniels…

Karen Mauskop from New York…

and Iris Rave from San Francisco…

for alertly sending me this “”THE FOUND ART OF THANK YOU NOTES”

 in this weekend’s New York Times.

By the time I got to read it in the hard-copy paper this morning,

I already knew from their  ‘thinking

of you’ notes  to make sure I didn’t miss it.

Jimmy Fallon is also helping bring “Thank You notes” back into the lexicon.

Once a week he writes funny ones on his late-night show, like

“Thank you bowling, for giving me an excuse to drink with somebody else’s shoes on.”

Mine aren’t funny, but they still convey a real message.

I’m hoping between Fallon, these trend-prognosticators and me,

it’s the start of a teeny-tiny movement toward grace & the written word again.

New York Times...

SOME OF MY FAVORITE POINTS FROM “THE FOUND ART OF THANK-YOU NOTES”, by Guy Trebay.

New York Times article, Sunday, April 6, 2014.

“… the boring stuff your parents made you do never actually goes out of fashion and .., recent scientific findings link gratittude to increased opportunism, stress reduction and a better night’s sleep.”

“Few … are aware that by (writing a note) they are on their way to becoming happier and more sociable people.”

“… conveying emotion in digital formats is a lost cause.  Somehow thickets of exclamation points, ALL CAPS shouts, loaded acronyms and chirpy emotions cannot approach the freight of feeling conveyed on a scrap of paper with words scratched on it by hand.”

“Text and email don’t mean anything anymore…”

People want, says Liz Quinn, the owner of Stationer on Sunrise in Palm Beach, FL — “To draw a distinction between the tossed-off, compressed nature of electronic messages and a form of ritualized communication that gives material evidence, “that the person really did appreciate something.”

“It’s most definitely important to show your gratitude, because not everything is going to be given to you.”

And the article concludes:

“Like a lot of people in my generation, I might think, “Oh, just send them a text,” said Ms. Gelderman, who is 20.  

“But I actually enjoy writing the notes because in the process of opening a note, feeling the paper,

seeing the imperfection of the writing,

reading the message in another person’s voice, you actually feel like you have a piece of that person in your hand.”

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