I heard a story on NPR about a father who sent his daughter a postcard every day that she was in college — 1,000 all together. They contained random stories about his day, questions and advice. It occurred to me how much that was like blogging (a daily post) except that he was sending actual tangible items through the mail instead of posting them online.
That gave me the idea to do the same, except as an artist (he was a bus driver) I create my own postcards and send the messages to anyone I feel like, whether dead, alive or imaginary. Instead of Googling for answers to questions I send virtual postcards into the blogosphere and channel the wisdom of the recipients to send myself responses. Some days it’s just a “wish you here” note and picture from my world. Other days it might be a dream message. Who knows? Anything goes…
If you’d like to contribute an artist postcard to be posted here, just email it to me and I’ll post it at my discretion.
Wonderful idea, Jana, that has a little touch of genius to it. Love the story of the dad and his daughter.
I absolutely LOVE this! What a wonderful idea! Your first posts made me smile. Cheers!
Christeen
This sounds like so much fun! You may even generate some “anything goes” postcards back, who knows.
I’d like to give this a try.