You really have a beautiful cursive writing! I still write by hand every day but cannot even remember when I last used cursive writing. And yes, I was very upset when our government decided to end cursive writing in school!
I used to rely heavily on jotting down notes at meetings to publish later for the group to keep as a record of the meeting. It helped immensely at corporate meetings since there was rarely anyone assigned as note-keeper.
My wife and I lived in a Senior Living Center for a few years and I was surprised that they never published minutes of the Residents Meeting each month. I inquired how the people who weren't present found out about what was discussed. Sadly, it never occurred to them. After that they took my transcriptions and shared them (with their minor edits) with all the residents.
I came to realize that note-taking in itself was an art form that had escaped so many people. For me, I was also able to rely on memory to put flesh on my skeletal notes soon after the meeting.
None of that would have been possible without the flow of notes in cursive, learned in parochial grade school 60+ years ago.
I started my journalistic career scribing feature interview discussions in cursive. Looking back, while time consuming, it proved to be far more accurate than today’s transcription
Thank you so much for sharing this. It brought back a lot of childhood memories for me. I’m Indian by birth and we are taught cursive script for British-English and Devnagari Script for Hindi and other languages derived from Sanskrit. Growing up, my family (coming from refugees) really insisted that I learnt to write in cursive as for them, it symbolised achieving literacy and consequently was a symbol of being liberated. I used to despise the writing exercises that my mom and school teachers made me do, but years later I am so grateful for the training, because like you highlighted, it is a unique and very flowing way of expression. Loved these reflections on the historical significance of cursive as well!
You really have a beautiful cursive writing! I still write by hand every day but cannot even remember when I last used cursive writing. And yes, I was very upset when our government decided to end cursive writing in school!
Yes, makes me sad. I’ve had kids look at my cursive writing in amazement like it’s a relic from the past, as though it should be in Smithsonian
I used to rely heavily on jotting down notes at meetings to publish later for the group to keep as a record of the meeting. It helped immensely at corporate meetings since there was rarely anyone assigned as note-keeper.
My wife and I lived in a Senior Living Center for a few years and I was surprised that they never published minutes of the Residents Meeting each month. I inquired how the people who weren't present found out about what was discussed. Sadly, it never occurred to them. After that they took my transcriptions and shared them (with their minor edits) with all the residents.
I came to realize that note-taking in itself was an art form that had escaped so many people. For me, I was also able to rely on memory to put flesh on my skeletal notes soon after the meeting.
None of that would have been possible without the flow of notes in cursive, learned in parochial grade school 60+ years ago.
I started my journalistic career scribing feature interview discussions in cursive. Looking back, while time consuming, it proved to be far more accurate than today’s transcription
Thank you so much for sharing this. It brought back a lot of childhood memories for me. I’m Indian by birth and we are taught cursive script for British-English and Devnagari Script for Hindi and other languages derived from Sanskrit. Growing up, my family (coming from refugees) really insisted that I learnt to write in cursive as for them, it symbolised achieving literacy and consequently was a symbol of being liberated. I used to despise the writing exercises that my mom and school teachers made me do, but years later I am so grateful for the training, because like you highlighted, it is a unique and very flowing way of expression. Loved these reflections on the historical significance of cursive as well!
Glad to hear that this sparked good memories about cursive.