April
Hello All,
April is a special month; the plants are coming back to life, the first flowers are arriving, the frosty mornings lace the trees, the birds are returning. In short, it's really beginning to be spring, the perfection of creation, Easter in everything. This is the perfect time of year to celebrate the art of description, the only true way we can communicate our thoughts and feelings: Poetry.
Since we're all detached from the world at the moment, our alternative forms of communication have become more important than ever, please remember to e-mail and write to your friends, it encourages and makes a big difference for someone to hear from you, even if you don't think so.
In relation to staying in touch and encouraging one another, and because we have a bit more time on our hands, I think a group exercise in creativity is what we chiefly need.
" 'I've just thought of a plan, Diana. Let you and I have a story club all our own and write stories for practice. I'll help you along until you can do them by yourself. You ought to cultivate your imagination, you know. Miss Stacey says so. Only we must take the right way. I told her about the Haunted Wood, but she said we went the wrong way about it in that.'
"This was how the story club came into existence. It was limited to Diana and Anne at first, but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and on or two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating."
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables
The story club has a lot of fun sharing their stories with each other, so form a group with friends and get ready to let your creativity run wild! The best way to do this would probably be by e-mail, but snail mail can work too, if you're willing to be patient with the postal service. Send some of your work to your friends and ask them to send some of theirs. Whether you write stories or poetry you'll be able to encourage each other and challenge yourself.
In your correspondence you probably run out of ideas for what to talk about and how to make it interesting. I know I do, so here are some other ideas:
A Running Letter Game - 20 questions, Bouts-rimés {rhyming and verse composition game, guidelines HERE}, Word and Question {instructions HERE}, Beethoven { a game in which one person asks a question and the next asks another changing the words of the sentence so it seems like they didn't hear it very well.
Ex.: 1st person: "How are you today?"
2nd person: "you got your feet stuck in the clay?" - It's a bit inane, but sometimes fun}.
This can be done with e-mail as well as hand-written letters.
A Coloring Page - I've seen a couple different people do this, and it seems like fun. You send a coloring page with your letter and your correspondent colors some part of it and sends it back to you to color part of it. This continues until it's all done.
Decorated Envelopes - Have some fun decorating your envelopes, as long as you can still read the address there's no rule that says they have to be boring.
If you're not convinced that letter/e-mail writing is important check out this post by Grace at The Maidens of Green Gables!
April is a special month; the plants are coming back to life, the first flowers are arriving, the frosty mornings lace the trees, the birds are returning. In short, it's really beginning to be spring, the perfection of creation, Easter in everything. This is the perfect time of year to celebrate the art of description, the only true way we can communicate our thoughts and feelings: Poetry.
Don't just take my word for it: it's officially National Poetry Month!
Since we're all detached from the world at the moment, our alternative forms of communication have become more important than ever, please remember to e-mail and write to your friends, it encourages and makes a big difference for someone to hear from you, even if you don't think so.
In relation to staying in touch and encouraging one another, and because we have a bit more time on our hands, I think a group exercise in creativity is what we chiefly need.
" 'I've just thought of a plan, Diana. Let you and I have a story club all our own and write stories for practice. I'll help you along until you can do them by yourself. You ought to cultivate your imagination, you know. Miss Stacey says so. Only we must take the right way. I told her about the Haunted Wood, but she said we went the wrong way about it in that.'
"This was how the story club came into existence. It was limited to Diana and Anne at first, but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and on or two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating."
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables
The story club has a lot of fun sharing their stories with each other, so form a group with friends and get ready to let your creativity run wild! The best way to do this would probably be by e-mail, but snail mail can work too, if you're willing to be patient with the postal service. Send some of your work to your friends and ask them to send some of theirs. Whether you write stories or poetry you'll be able to encourage each other and challenge yourself.
Other letter-writing ideas:
In your correspondence you probably run out of ideas for what to talk about and how to make it interesting. I know I do, so here are some other ideas:
A Running Letter Game - 20 questions, Bouts-rimés {rhyming and verse composition game, guidelines HERE}, Word and Question {instructions HERE}, Beethoven { a game in which one person asks a question and the next asks another changing the words of the sentence so it seems like they didn't hear it very well.
Ex.: 1st person: "How are you today?"
2nd person: "you got your feet stuck in the clay?" - It's a bit inane, but sometimes fun}.
This can be done with e-mail as well as hand-written letters.
A Coloring Page - I've seen a couple different people do this, and it seems like fun. You send a coloring page with your letter and your correspondent colors some part of it and sends it back to you to color part of it. This continues until it's all done.
Decorated Envelopes - Have some fun decorating your envelopes, as long as you can still read the address there's no rule that says they have to be boring.
If you're not convinced that letter/e-mail writing is important check out this post by Grace at The Maidens of Green Gables!
Love the new blog look! Though we are well into summer now instead of spring, I have a feeling that I'll be wanting to write letters soon.
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