Heavy Keys and Happy Hearts, an Ode to the Typewriter.

 

The heavy keys, the smell of ink...ah the joys of an old fashion typewriter!

 

Four dollars at the Thrift Shop turned into an afternoon of sheer delight. The children lined up to take their turns....hunting, pecking....push harder so the letter will show! Opps! Where's the back button? No back button? 

Nope, this is real life.

 

This is the power of your hand pushing keys to force ink to paper in a symbol of understanding....constructing sentences like music.....

No electricity to get in the way, no micro chips are claiming co-billing on your creation.

 

I think of my grandmothers and how fast their fingers moved these heavy thunderous keys. Clank, swish, thud, clank, swish, thud - all so fast as to nearly blur.  

 

All to create one precious master piece.