Send the very best

If you were to ask a lot of my friends to tell you one thing that I do that no one else does, they would probably list the fact that I send greeting cards.
I'm not just talking about the yearly Christmas card, I'm talking about every type of card imaginable. Easter. St. Patrick's Day. Grandparent's Day. All of those and more.
I don't know how I got started on my card sending crusade, though I'm sure it has something to do with my childhood. Doesn't everything we do have something to do with our childhood?
When I was a kid, my mom was rather diligent about sending birthday cards to our family members. All of us kids had to sign the card and write in a special greeting if we wished.
Since then, being as I am an "adult," I now take the time to send cards to my friends and family members when the occasion arises.
Not only is giving greeting cards an act of days gone by, actually sending the card is almost a way of the past. If you haven't heard in the news lately, people don't really use the post office a lot. I can understand why when the line is often 10 people deep. But still, I trudge on through the wait in order to get some stamps for my cards.
To me, sending a card is about the best way -- without a gift -- to tell a person that you care about them and that you are thinking about them. Sure, an e-mail is nice, but at the end of the day, an e-mail is just words on a screen. You can't feel that. While you can print it out, it then just becomes words on paper.
A card has a story. In the far away land of card makers,  someone is dreaming of the next catchy saying for the inside of the card while another person is thinking of an attractive design. Once the two come together, they create a form of communication that has been around for hundreds of years.
Then the card is sent to a local store, where it is purchased, signed, and mailed. Therefore, someone had to pick out the perfect card for the recipient, write a message if they desired, and then address it and mail it. See how much personalization goes into sending a card? That's a little bit more personalization than typing an e-mail in 12-point font.

So I plan on continuing my card crusade until the post office officially closes its doors. After all, someone has to keep Hallmark in business.