Message From The Heart
February 12, 1998
Does anyone have the time to write a love letter these days? To take out pen and paper and spend an evening scribbling sweet nothings, to address the envelope, to find a stamp, and then to carry the letter to a post box in the morning and send it on its way by good old-fashioned snail mail?
It looks as if we're all too busy. Too harried, too hurried. If you doubt it, consider Necco candy hearts, those little pastel Valentine confections whose smell and flavor haven't changed in 50 years. You know, the ones with the pithy two- or three-word messages?
A recent batch included the following, in among such staples as I Love You, Be Mine, and Kiss Me: Fax Me, Web Site, E-mail, Be My Icon, and - the cynical last word - Whatever.