It was reported two days ago (I’m not sure why I didn’t know about this until now!!) that an award winning essay of Paul McCartney’s was found by Kevin Roache, who is writing a biography (yes, another) of McCartney and his family. It is a 300 word essay about the English Queen’s leadership: “no rioting nor killing will take place because present day royalty rules with affection rather than force.” Have we heard this one before?? ….YUP— ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.

I am blown away of how beautiful his handwriting is- hell, of course the man’s handwriting will be gorgeous to look at: 1) he’s English (something in my mind says that they have a more formal sense of education and would have beautiful handwriting) and 2) he’s Paul McCartney. This allows me to bring up my beef with the world and my personal realization that poor handwriting is an epidemic in this country. No one writes letters or thank yous. And since I’ve been going through the “type-up-everyone’s-contact-information-for-radio” phase of my life for the last month, people’s poor handwriting is even more apparent to me and just upsets me on a daily basis. When you cannot get in contact with someone in the wee small hours of the morning simply because you cannot tell if their 1 is a 7 or their 2 is a 3, it can eat away at you until you are ready to snap (luckily for all of us this phase in my life is coming to an end, soon.)

Let Paul’s essay be a lesson to us all: 1) please practice your handwriting 2) he knew all along that love is more powerful than war 3) everything that will, or ever has, come out of his mouth (or pen?) proves that this man is a genius and even at the age of 10, the world will fall in love with him all over again.

the only man i will ever love who rocked a mullet for so long (1972-thanks corbis!)