The rapid clatter of keys and the soft hum of touchscreens has become a background noise of our daily lives, there’s a timeless debate that lingers like an age old riddle… is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?
It’s a question that I sit with day in and day out. While I watch the majority of people attached, even glued to their digital devices. I wonder and worry about whether the next generation will lose the the ability to write by hand, as technology becomes the essence of how we communicate, create and even understand ourselves.
Give me a fountain pen and notebook any day. Nothing beats taking the time to sit and journal with beautiful writing tools.
Handwriting, with its artful strokes and curves, has been the primary vessel for human expression for centuries. The fluidity of ink on the paper carries with it the legacies of poets, philosophers and visionaries. It’s the tool that storytellers shared their declarations of love, archived personal histories and documented the…