On hearing of the death of handwritten letters:

Text messaging. E-mail. Chat rooms. Discussion boards. Lots of communicating going on. Lots of soliloquizing too, uttered into a faceless electronic void.

History is being made and forgotten. This is not new. When people moved into huts somebody was regretting the good old days in caves. When ball point pens became common, some regretted the loss of inkwells and nibs.

So, is the looming loss of handwritten letters just another cave or inkwell? The urge to create doesn't go away, so I have no fear of computers reducing the creativity of their users. The poet is always in us, and so is our curiosity about the world and the people on it. Thechnology doesn't replace; it adds options.