Retired. Having fun with photography. Journal daily. Meditate daily. Learning haiku/poetry. Have a love for fountain pens.

4 Comments

  • Tom Dills

    April 23, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    Simply beautiful writing, Monte. Makes me feel like I was there with you. I know you’ve practiced a lot, but your penmanship is lovely. I’ve gotten away from “cursive” writing but this may inspire me to go back to it.

    • Monte Stevens

      April 23, 2020 at 7:39 pm

      Thank you, Tom. I write slowly deliberately, wanting it to be readable and artistic, and in many ways a lost art. Mark made a suggestion a week or so ago to post some writing. As I sat against the tree, I heard it suggest a photo might work now.

  • Mark

    April 26, 2020 at 7:46 am

    Kudos to you on your penmanship skills Monte. A lost art to many I think – just like you mentioned to Tom. I remember those days of penmanship class – lines upon lines of writing letters over and over, training your hand muscle memory. It is something I know I need to do more often.

    (btw, I don’t know if you have something in your browser that remembers input fields for populating name, website, etc for comments. When I visit here, those fields are not populated for me, but when I start typing a couple letters, they seem to fill in. Just an idea on your issue you experienced at my site.)

    • Monte Stevens

      April 27, 2020 at 11:19 am

      Thanks, Mark. I also remember those lined pages in grade school.

      I’ve looked at my stuff and see nothing that remembers input fields. I will continue to look into this.