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This is a special post on my Blog.
It is the first time that I have been able to do only what I enjoy
doing in order to generate a post for my Blog.
I have always enjoyed the action of
writing. It is the actual physical action of writing, preferably with a fountain pen of
course, that I find so exceptionally therapeutic and not necessarily the
content of my writing. Typing does not have the same therapeutic value or effect as writing
by hand does, even though the end result is the same.
When I eventually reached the
point, a few years ago, where my health got the better of me and I had to
concede that I was severely restricted in what I could do, someone suggested
that I use this love of writing to start a Blog and thereby keep myself busy. This
what I did, hence this Blog.
Until now I have always written my
thoughts down by hand because, as I said, it is the action of writing by hand that I enjoy.
I would then later, very reluctantly, have to make the effort to type out my writing so
that I can post it to my Blog.
A few days ago, for my birthday, I
was given a stylus and a writing application for my Apple iPad. It enables me
to write, as I would with a pen and sheet of paper, while the application
automatically converts my writing into typed text, ready to be posted on my
Blog or anywhere else I need to use it.
This really is such a brilliant
application and tool. (I realize it may be old news for all of you out there
but it was new to me, though I had heard of it some time ago.) I now get the
same satisfaction and therapeutic value as I would when I write in the
conventional manner and yet I end up with a product that suits the requirements
that I need to post my writing to my Blog.
Does this mean I will
now post to my Blog more frequently? No, I doubt that, though maybe this will
happen because this application and stylus does mean that I don't have to go
through the painful process of typing out my handwriting when I do want to post
it to my Blog.
Anyway, there you have it. My first Blog written entirely by hand. Have a wonderfully
blessed Saturday and please remember the Holy Fathers request that today we all
pray and fast for peace in Syria.
