I died that day, but I also came back to life so that is a win…right? Right now I’m starting to learn Japanese. I love science fiction, gaming, and learning new things (even if not that well). I’m a weird hermit and dedicated caregiver. I’m wordy and grow hydroponic veggies and flowers inside my house. Although it is less entertaining if the entire story is, “Once I got this postcard from a person. and then came back…because they kept thinking about this…and thought that they do want to have new experiences with new people that could maybe be friends or at least become a cool story someday. I would love to get a note or postcard from another person who probably read about this, and then thought it was a great idea ….but suddenly was worried that they wouldn’t follow through… or that they’d write something weird…or use ellipses in a way someone picked on… and so they left the page…. I will respond in kind, though I might be a little slower than normal (apologies in advance if so – stupid brain). □ Any and all good cheer, kindness, encouragement, New Yorker cartoons, et cetera would be so greatly appreciated. I’m using a character from the other as my name below. One is The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. I follow politics like it’s a sport, will die on almost ANY hill, including those I don’t have an actual opinion about (because informed debate is so much fun), and believe Shoebill Storks are the most magnificent creatures that grace this planet. Who or any adjacent shows/books in the genre. Who before he was able to make the Hitchhiker’s series and … that’s the only real opinion I have on Dr. Douglas Adams, whom I adore, used to write for Dr. I love books, bourbon, and (English) bulldogs the most of all – I often read several books at a time and have a bulldog on top of me as I write this. I would normally never admit ANY of that to a good friend, much less strangers on the internet so… not sure what is happening here! I’ve been having an extraordinarily rough time of it as of late – mood disorders combining with grief and existential crises in the form of law school acceptances/rejections/waitlists (I am very old/non-traditional for an applicant so time is an issue as well). #400 / San Antonio TX, 78232″Īnd no matter where you are in the world today, please consider this a note to tell you how much I’m glad that you’re here. I’m:Įxecutive Princess Jenny / 14546 Brook Hollow Blvd. Also, David Tennant was totally the best Doctor Who and I’m willing to die on that hill. So for example my comment would say, “Feel free to write me a note. I’m going to be sending some postcards myself because I just got a dozen and they are amazing. And if you want to send a card to a friend you haven’t met yet you can pick one (or several) below. You can use your first name, or an initial or a secret made-up name and you can use your address or a po box or your brother’s house or whatever feels safe for you. So if you’d like to maybe get a note from a sweet stranger to remind you that there are people in the world who care just leave your address in the comments. I am still getting cards from that and they always make me smile and I know there are people who today have made lasting friendships through such a small but fun exchange. Regardless, it reminded me that a few years ago we did a thing here where if you wanted a kind note from a stranger in this community you could just leave your address in the comments and maybe get or give a little unexpected magic to someone else. It also has a series of dots and dashes hidden inside the letters and I can only assume it was some sort of secret code they used, or that possibly they were teenage farmer spies who were busy passing secrets while working in the cotton fields of rural Texas. The stamp smeared it a bit but I think it says “sending you lots of kisses and Marlon Brando.” I might wrong about that last part. They were written mostly in English because their parents only spoke Czech and so they couldn’t snoop on the intercepted letters, but my grandmother’s sisters would definitely have been snooping so my grandfather would hide little notes like this one he apparently hid under the stamp. It’s Valentine’s Day and I don’t really celebrate it because I don’t like it when people tell me when to enjoy chocolate but my sister emailed me a stack of love letters our grandfather sent our grandmother to convince her to marry him and they were so strangely lovely that it reminded me how wonderful letters can be.
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