Ok, so why not write them regular mails? Much more personal imo, you can preserve your handwriting as well, dont rely on an email provider, not handing over personal data either etc. Only flipside I see it is a bit harder to include digital data e.g. videos, but easier to add analog/physical.
Personally, years and years of writing perhaps 100 words per year that aren’t my signature has made my handwriting slow, even uglier and harder to read than it already was, and has probably (I wouldn’t know) ruined my stamina for handwriting. I’d have to start such a letter-writing project with exercises to restore my handwriting to some minimally acceptable level, and my experience has been that adding stuff-to-do-before-I-do-a-thing usually means the thing won’t happen.
I think this is a fantastic idea. We all tout the benefits of digital...easier, unlimited storage, able to index and search, etc.
I've sent my wife thousands of texts and emails over the years that are long gone.
Every single letter and note I'd ever written, no matter how stupid, she's saved in a box and looks through almost every year. There's certainly something to be said for the human element and effort of it. Just in case, hey, why not both?
