The summer of the postcard
I used to write letters
to a few college friends and family members long-hand. The trouble is
that, in this age of computers, writing by hand feels terribly slow, so
we all got behind in our correspondence and began to consider the
letters a chore. Plus, it's hard to fill a letter with unique
information now that I share 90% of my daily thoughts with the world on
our blog.
Enter the postcard. This summer, I've been playing with these beautiful botanical postcards,
dashing off a line whenever I think of it and sending them to all and
sundry. Paper correspondence quickly became fun once again!
The first few weeks, it
felt like I was fishing. I'd send out postcards to people I hadn't heard
from in a while...then wait to see if they'd bite. My mom and I soon
settled into a weekly postcard routine, and my grand-niece and
grand-nephew came through with the amusing replies above. Glad I'm not
the only one who likes strawberries!
I know this post has very
little to do with homesteading. But the moral is --- if something used
to be fun but became a chore, shake it up and make it fun again! And, if
you can't think of your own unique spin, you could do far worse than
joining me in the summer of the postcard.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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