22 05 2016

An Iraqi shepherd tends his flock of sheep in the Kurdish town of Aqrah on March 21, 2016. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images)

Mémoire. Nora Attal photographed by Brydie Mack for Faithfull the Brand Summer 2020.

“Because sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door. Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope, your scent graces the paper. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in another’s mailbox; their world. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern and impersonal forms of communication will never replace.”

— e.e.cummings

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Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

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