virtural letter writing social

I would never have imagined writing letters virtually via Instagram live video, but that is exactly what 33 of us did last week.

Our current reality of self-isolation has made us think differently, to be creative in how we find community when we are physically removed from one another.

community in letter writing virtually

I was honestly overwhelmed by the interest in ‘getting together’ virtually to write letters. We had people from the USA, Canada and Spain on the virtual letter writing social. It was incredible!

Some people had their own typewriters out, others used paper and pen. It didn’t matter, we all wanted to write letters and meet other letter writing folk.

notes of encouragment to health care workers, seniors

I shared ideas of writing prompts and who we could write to. We focused on three groups of people; our neighbors, elderly in senior centres and healthcare workers.

Look up the address of the senior centre in your area and send a letter too. One participant made the thoughtful suggestion to include some reading material along with your letter as many are restricted to their individual rooms as no activities are happening for the residents.

next virtual letter writing social is April 1st

Please join us for the next virtual letter writing social. We will meet again on April 1st (the beginning of National Letter Writing Month) 7pm MST for 30 minutes.

All you need to do is follow @ritewhileucan on Instagram and be online at 7pm when you will be notified of a ‘live video.’ When you see me and hear my typewriter, you will know you are in the right place.

Follow the hash tag #virtualletterwritingsocial to see and post pictures of the event.

Have you been writing more letters since being in self-isolation?

p.s check out the very cool typewritten pendants made by santoshapoetry and her typewriter.