-Lord Byron
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| First postcard |
Three pieces of mail received so far this week! Two cards from friends here in town, one Valentine from a sister deaconess in Waco. But even better than receiving mail in my own box is feedback from people to whom I've sent mail. My friend Caitlin in the U.K. announced on Facebook that she had received a handwritten letter from me. And my friend Becky in Hawaii messaged me via FB that she was thrilled to receive something other than bills and junk in her mailbox. Also, my first postcrossing postcard arrived at its destination--thank goodness for those U.S. addresses that pop up. I could grow even older than I am, waiting for those sent to former Soviet bloc countries to arrive.
Now that I'm paying attention, I find that there are a number of like-minded, dedicated letter-writers in the world. This afternoon I discovered The Missive Maven and her delightful blog. Compared to her, I am a real slacker. She mails dozens of letters plus dozens of postcards each month, not counting her postcrossing postcards. Wow. I couldn't afford that, in the first place, nor do I have that much time. And then there's the fear I picked up in school when I was writing all those papers (dear God, what possessed me to study Humanities?): I'm going to run out of words! Of course, the real excuse is that I just don't know that many people. Trolling for pen pals seems awfully lame--so my small circle of friends and my family are subjected to a constant bombardment in their mailboxes.
If anyone reads this, send me your address so I can mail you something!
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