I hand write post-it notes to personalize typed matter.
I phone people I used to write.
I hand write ideas that come on the fly when a memo onto the fone is not possiible, sometimes on my hand or leg if I'm driving or if no paper can be found. (Those go to fone or puder soon after, for digital transmission.)

But in my circles, Grishka's list of "must-write" occasions, for me, are show up in person occasions. And people have generally reacted very appreciatively, because we live in a remote place making showing up (usually) a long drive most folks don't make.

A close-by one from the Sunday just past, I will describe:

My DH is an Episcopal priest who has always had more effective collegiality with the local RC priest tan with his farther-away Espiscopal peers. As the RCs rotate their cures more often than he does, he's had a series of uniquely sweet relationships thereby.

Sunday, Father John (RC) was celebrating his last Mass here before being placed 3 hours away. We managed to squeeze our presence at an event at our parish just enough to get to that Mass (with reception to follow), just in time to get to the back of the line of communicants receiving Fr. John's last Communion among them. The RCs don't authorize Communion for non-Rcers, so as I stepped to Fr. John's hands I removed my glasses, and asked a blessing. He lovingly administered one (laying on hands). I followed the communicants who had been ahead of me in line, to a nearby pew. My DH was behind me, last in line. He stepped forward and also asked for a blessing.

As Fr. John finished my DH's blessing, he asked my DH to bless him in return. THIS IS NOT DONE publicly-- to openly acknowledge the validity of a non-RC priest's ordination!

But it was so Gracious, and right for that moment. No one could hear the words used... but the body language of a blessing conferred is the same, RC or Episcopal.

A number of Fr. John's parishioners came to us in tears of joy, at the reception, about that moment. A card could never have done it.

~S~