photography by klaire lee

Over the past few months, almost a half-year really, a fellow classmate and I have been maintaining a correspondence almost-entirely by email. He doesn’t live far away from the campus, and we sometimes meetup for lunch or other activities yet the conversations always pales a little in comparison to our virtual letters.

In essence a letter is written and read in retirement from the social scene; this is certainly true of… major epistolary clarification. (Tanner)

It’s a somewhat unusual occurrence, abandoning the instant message chats (he also doesn’t own a cellphone) & other social media modes of communication. If it weren’t for those similar flashes of insight from our meshed personalities, during offline interactions, I would not know how to weigh this friendship.