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I have recently discovered a lost love: hand writing (handwriting some would call it). Here's the story:
For Christmas (shortly before my 8th birthday) my Mother gave me a Journal--my first as it would turn out. I've kept a journal ever since. That is a gift that has been giving to me nonstop for well more than 50 years.
Of course, as you can see, I also journal in a blog online. I do that a lot. Typing is a learned skill, as is writing. I learned both while very young, and remember those days with pleasure. Technology advanced, as did the years. Life got in the way. Stuff happened.
Recently, I was browsing through YouTube when I happened to find in my home recommendations a video where someone was reviewing, of all things a fountain pen. Then another, and another. I had no idea there is a very large fountain pen community linking together through the technology. That was, itself, enough to make me investigate further. I thought the entire hand writing "thing" was over. Was I ever wrong! Then, I suddenly remembered "the rest of the story".
My mother had also given me, with the journal, a fountain pen. I already knew how to write in script, or cursive form. (I was a precocious child, indeed!) As it turned out, the fountain pen was given, originally to my maternal Grandfather when he was overseas fighting a war in the U S Army during WWI! It was called a "trench pen". It was a review of this pen by a collector that brought it all back to me. He was showing MY pen!
I wasn't allowed to open it, or write with it (no tablets anyway) but it stayed with my first journal, and I saw it every day as I wrote with my new Parker pen!
My mother had given me the gift that I have still today: the love of writing. And, of hand writing, which I have not done seriously in decades now. But I newly feel a found love I had lost sight of.
I hope you will join me on this journey with my new Parker fountain pen. I hope you will deeply desire to feel a fountain pen in your hand again, too. Take it up! Be bold, and daring. Writing by hand, refilling your pen with a new ink, with the color of your passion.
This blog is not for reviews of pens, fountains or other. This is the recording of a journey with my pen and I. I hope it will be about your journey with your pen, too.
Writing is FUN!