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Education > K through 12 > Handwriting
 

Handwriting

When money troubles reach crisis points, I am apt to get frantic and impulsive, which is not good for the situation at all, and I have to use many tricks to calm down.

One silly thing I started doing is to write phrases in my mother's handwriting. She taught grade school and had beautiful penmanship, Petersen system, which she had to teach too. So when I write like that it looks almost exactly like hers.

It takes much longer, and the words are broad and spread out. It's rhythmic and steady, writing like that. My own hand is terrible, mostly because I'm in a hurry and don't care to make things very legible. I try to blame my messy writing on my arthritis, but that's not really the reason.

So I wrote a phrase I ran across in FlyLady, which expressed the same sort of methodical, steady mindset I need:
"... the daily pleasure of tidy surroundings."

My mother wouldn't have occasion to write such a thing since she didn't care much about housework, but it's the same kind of nice, conventional, unhurried sort of thought I need to cultivate. A bit hypnotic. I could probably find some adages or phrases from samplers women used to make in times long ago, that would also work. Both the thought and the action of doing it are calming.

posted on Nov 19, 2014 8:59 AM ()

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Yes, Palmer was probably what she learned as a child but her writing later conformed to Peterson. I think she mentioned it sometime. I agree about clutter. Suddenly giving up all sorts of little mementos seems perfectly acceptable. We ought to live, not be caretakers of stuff.
comment by drmaus on Nov 20, 2014 10:52 AM ()
When I am overwhelmed, I know that part of it comes from clutter so no matter what else I need to do, I start with clearing things off of counters. A messy house depresses me. I also do this when I am very angry about something. I have a legible handwriting because my mission in life is to make myself understood. I did a lot of typing for others before computers robbed me of that livelihood. I became expert at reading impossible handwriting. Are you sure the handwriting you copy from your mom is Peterson? I remember it was the Palmer method.
comment by tealstar on Nov 19, 2014 6:34 PM ()
One of my samplers says: A house without a cat may be a home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?
comment by troutbend on Nov 19, 2014 6:15 PM ()
Remember the movie Cat People? Now that's in my head.
reply by drmaus on Nov 20, 2014 10:49 AM ()
My handwriting is almost illegible. I have never been good with my hands
but I find that when I am upset if I write it all down in a notebook, it
is of tremendous help in making me calm. My old sampler says, "Be
virtuous if you would be happy." and to an extent that is true but it
doesn't take circumstance into account.
comment by elderjane on Nov 19, 2014 5:11 PM ()
Writing about the problem can lead you to solutions.Right now I just need to slow down my thinking. Your sampler has truth to it, since when I try to do something for someone else, it seems to straighten things out for me a little more.
reply by drmaus on Nov 20, 2014 10:48 AM ()

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