Cursive Writing

I have decided going forward I am only going to chisel notes in stone tablets using Greek alphabet.

I low key wish it was.

The quality of my cursive writing has declined significantly. It's still faster than printing, but I sometimes have a hard time reading it later.

I still use cursive though mostly for writing checks. I will also annotate some notes/bills with cursive remarks. When I worked as a software quality engineer I had to review other engineers’ documents, and I would always submit my comments using cursive. Nobody ever had a problem with it. So I’m definitely an old school user of cursive.
(I also still can drive a manual transmission car!)😜

Ditto. lol

Penmanship was hard as I was growing up.   Dad was also left handed, but his generation was forced to learn how to write, right handed.  When I was first learning how to write at P.S. 104 in  Brooklyn NYC, dad told the principal, in no uncertain terms, I was left handed and that they were going to teach his son left handed, period. This was around 1958. 

I had to really focus, learning backwards in a way. I had a left handed tilt to my writing and they worked on it until It was done properly. It took years and I worked really hard at it. In 1960 they figured out I was Dyslexic. This was a challenge in learning how to read, but I found a way.
 
As I relive this history, it occurs to me that these obstacles may have been the birth of my insane focus and persistence in every thing I do/attempt,  with results that often surprise me. I expect all attempts, regardless of the level of complexity, to be perfect. If I’m unsure of an aspect of any creation, I will do a test run, new tools I don’t put to a project until I’ve used them for an understanding of it’s abilities and adjustments.  I even use the Dyslexia to look at things differently, to give me a better understanding of what I want and how to achieve it.

One of the crazy things, I’ve been told by amazingly talented craftsman that my stuff was too good, they told me that if your selling hand made, people want it to look hand made, that my stuff doesn’t always look hand made.  The world is weird.

It kind of explains how I landed a Union Carpenter job with out being in that union, and from that job I got into 
Bio-Medical Engineering, without the required certificate in electronics. I made the full 30 years, earning early pension benefits at 59. 

What much of the world would consider weakness, I excelled against the pressure. The 143 horsepower mind came from Mom and Dad, a gift I was unaware of until the Hospital hired me. Fundamentally It’s all just a lucky roll of the dice. Thinking back on my life, I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

I believe it’s worthwhile to learn as a kid, because it requires finer motor skills than block lettering. Who really knows what ways it is useful to mankind? Stitching together our veins and arteries? Assembling tiny components? Drawing an artistic piece of stunning beauty that inspires others?

It’s an achievable goal that kids can receive praise for at a very early age; one that’s tangible and that they can share with their families in the form of a Valentines Day card, for example. This success can be the lower tier of a scaffold that continues, hopefully, to grow taller and taller.

They need these small victories to stay motivated. Keep cursive, in my opinion.

That’s a great idea, Auf Kiltre!