Notes Contain Micro-stories

Handwritten notes you send contain a micro-story.

As the note pictured above shows, this writer took time to celebrate a young girl’s achievement, noting the hard work behind her performance and the pleasure her performance gave to others.

Make your mark

Pen scratches made on paper or a note often track major and minor events in people’s lives. The way musical notes represent a sound, handwritten notes represent a moment in time.

Bits and pieces. Tiny marks. Yet strung together over time, these notes tell a micro-story.

Writing a note shows your concern for other people.

You connect with someone about their dreams, their memorable moments, or simply share a burden or divide a grief.

Like a funnel for thoughts, writing a note forces you to say in a few sentences something that captures, reinforces and reminds the recipient of an important life experience.

Cumulatively, notes can document an entire chapter in a person’s life.

Birth of a child. Death of a family member. Graduations. Anniversaries. Achievements. Retirement. Fighting an illness. Settling in a new home. Getting a new pet. Putting an old pet to rest.

Something bigger than you

A “You are not alone” message underlies each note sent and received. You are someone I care about. You matter to me.

“No man is an island, entire of itself.

Every man is a continent, a part of the main …

Any man’s death diminishes me

Because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

John Donne

Notes you send or receive compose a symphony or a poem. A collage, a collection of days and months and moments––interesting segments of a whole.

Even the briefest note attests to a personal connection and the time it took someone to put words to thoughts and feelings.

Your words attest to belonging.