In honor of National Handwriting Day, I’ve gone through various boxes of memorabilia to create a survey of my handwriting throughout the various stages of my life. I’m amused.
I like to say that I got into calligraphy out of sheer stubbornness: In elementary school the only subject in which I couldn’t get an A was … handwriting. I’ve been working on it ever since.
If you click on the thumbnail at left you’ll see my handwriting at 5-1/2, 11, 16, 24, and 42. The big gap in there could possibly be filled only by locating the children’s artwork with my explanatory labels on it; the years of rearing young children evidently didn’t provide much free time for longhand.
Yesterday I was thinking about you and your calligraphy and I heard a philosopher being interviewed. He used the word’ sublunary’. The interviewer picked him up on it, and later I looked it up. I decided that if a person can be sublunary, then I am a sublunary person. I went & got out my calligraphy book, and a calligraphy texta and I wrote the word sublunary in my sketchbook. I hope to do this with other words and phrases that crop up. I used to have beautiful handwriting, but it has deteriorated with the need to hurry/takes notes etc.
Go for it! I’d like to do a book of words sometime. There are so many weird and wonderful ones.