I talked with a friend last night who was the recipient of one of the postcard from my challenge to myself (see "Love Me Some Gorey" post for full details). Turns out she was thrilled when she realized what it was. Which in turn made me feel good! Good karma all around.
So, I'm counting this a success and I will continue working at sending postcards to as many people as possible. But it got me thinking (and we all know how dangerous that can be); to write a short note, that's meaningful to someone is a lost art. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more I realized how much this will help my writing. All this blogging and tweeting, etc., is just an exercise to write something, anything, that's not related to work. I want to get back to creating my fanfic, with the thought that's the path to more original, creative work. Plus, I hadn't realized how many postcards I have sitting around. Every time I ordered a calendar from Pomegranate (who, btw, has the best stuff - every year, I order a day planner and this year I purchased the absolute greatest address book), they send me a batch of really neat, free postcards. Which I promptly stuff in my stationary drawer and forget about. No more.
All of this came from the epiphany I had in the bathroom this morning: postcards are the Twitter of snailmail. You have such a limited space to use and so far I've been using it for the "hope this note finds you well" variety of blah. Not that it's not a nice or sincere sentiment - but really, I can do sooooo much better. So with that in mind, I've decided to change the original intent of my challenge. Not only will I send a postcard every other week to someone, I will attempt to be creative in my notes. Personalize it in a way that's meaningful to both of us.
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I think we all tend to see our mailboxes (those not in cyberspace) as pits of doom. They bring us stacks of unsolicited junk mail and even more unsolicited bills. Neither of which we want. Once a month or every other we might get in a publication that we want to read. (Most so if you're a reading house I guess). But what, we'll glance through it once or twice and then relegate it to the magazine rack or worse...the back of the toilet for some 'light reading' for the men of the house.
It's a brilliant thing to instead go to your mailbox and find a note from a friend instead! It's a hug you didn't know you needed or a joke to make you laugh or a ray of sunshine in an otherwise dreary day.
Yes in deedy, while post cards may be the twitter of snailmail, they are the stuff!
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