The weight of correspondence

I asked Rainer Maria Rilke and he said it's ok to sit on an email for a while

“Amish Letter Writer” by Horace Pippin, 1940

I am never going to read the 10,506 unopened emails in my inbox. Most of them are spam or automated emails or, recently, newsletters that I signed up for and never had the time to read (I know, I know).

Buried in there are a few personal emails from friends, loose threads that I left dangling as we drifted apa…