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Let me introduce me to this forum: My name is Jesse, Dutch, male, 45 years old, happily married, daughters.

 

I work with computers every day, but all of my private hobbies and interests have always been more analogue in nature: cycling, camping, reading, writing, listening to and playing music (mainly classical and jazz) and photography (yes, both digital and film). We also host visitors a lot through Couchsurfing and WarmShowersList. Keeps us in touch with the world outside the Netherkands better than just reading the papers.

 

About a year ago I started keeping a journal and I've been at it every day since. I found to my surprise I love writing. For me writing is like a mental coredump. Very relaxing and it helps streamlining my thoughts and ideas. I also enjoy putting to use some nice pens and ink. I have always loved stationary.

 

Lately I also took to writing letters to some friends (I even wrote a love letter to my wife, since I realized she never got one from me ☺).

 

I'd love to write more letters, and perhaps even receive some, but the thing is: I ran out of potential recipients who would appreciate it.

 

I see this question coming up quite frequently, but I haven't found a conclusive solution, so here goes: If there are other people who'd like to send letters, I will appreciate recieving them and I will reply (though admittedly not always the same day ☺).

 

I know: send and thy will recieve, so if anyone thinks I'd be a nice person to recieve a letter from, just send a pb and I will write.

 

For the record, I'm a native Dutch speaker, but can also write and read (in descending order of ability) English, German, Polish and even Esperanto.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous  Who taught by the pen

Taught man that which he knew not (96/3-5)

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Hi Everyone,

 

thank you for the hospitality! I will check out the thread mentioned by StoneZebra.

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Welcome Jesse! :W2FPN:

 

You can also look for the Letter Exchange Badges that people have.

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Welcome Jesse! :W2FPN:

 

You can also look for the Letter Exchange Badges that people have.

 

You mean those cutesy little snails and mailboxes you see underneath some members posts mean someone is potentially up for a new penpal?

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Hello and welcome from Wales.

 

Have you tried www.postcrossing.com - I discovered it a few years ago when I wasn't having any luck finding good penpals - did you know that the Dutch postal service have issued a second set of stamps celebrating Postcrossing?

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