During a day when I needed a pick-me-up, this blog post from Mashable came up in my Google Reader, and I had to watch the animation short that it described.

Need a feel-good moment? Need a bit of a Disney fix? Want to smile?

Watch it:

This touches on so many things, but oh how it simply made my day. The paper. The Disney magic. The whimsy.

Nowadays, would this be a text message instead? A Twitter follow/reply? A chance “friending” on Facebook. Somehow that seems less romantic.

As someone who believes in the power of hand-written notes, I hope we never lose the wonder of paper, of chance, of whimsy.

Then again, maybe I’m just a little crazy.

Much love,

the whimsical one