a little white envelope

My mother clipped NYTimes articles. She clipped them and sent them off to friends and relatives. Once my sister bought her a special coupon cutting tool to use on the coupon-free NYTimes.

I received hundreds of white envelopes stuffed with articles she'd discover. The envelopes were stuffed with articles and surprisingly nothing else. No note. No letter. No sticky note, or ink marks at the top of the headlined paper. I rarely knew why she chose to send me this article over hundreds of others that week.

I craved to know why. It appears that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania also want to know why people send articles to each other.

So, in the spirit of my mother, I "forward" this article to you.

"And if you want to share that feeling with anyone, you know what to do next."