Here’s a great story I ran across today over at the Sharpie Blog (which I madly adore). Check out this sad and wonderful, inspiring story:
Send Love Today is a nonprofit organization that provides emotional support to brain tumor patients and their families in the form of cards and small gifts.
Do you have a little bit of time on your hands to commit to jotting a few notes to people who could use some encouragement and uplifting? Go to the site and read more about this great organization and see if you can do something to help.
And if you can’t right now, do pass it on!
Tags: good deed, non-profit, philanthropy
Rose over at The Center of My Self recently wrote a great post about the impact we have on people we’ve touched in our lives — what they remember about us, what we teach them, etc.
It’s a great and thoughtful post, but as I read on she talked about someone who had left behind letters and journals and what that meant to her. I found it to be touching and it states so well what I think we all feel.
Go check out What We Leave Behind, by Rose.
Here’s a great craft project for those of you who collect postcards.
Check out the hanging postcard collage!
Sabrina Ward Harrison, a lovely and carefree artist, has some new card sets out. Definitely worth check out over at PAPAYA.
Also, I have a giveaway coming up. I was sent a set of cards that are WONDERFUL and you’ll love them. I’ll be announcing the giveaway very soon. (I’ve had a terrible, terrible virus and was down for nearly a week so I’m racing to catch up.)
Can’t wait to tell you what’s in your future. WOOT!
Dream Sequins is doing a project called “Postcards from My Hometown” over at her blog. Looks like fun… go check it out!
As fans of letter writing we love getting mail of any kind — letters, notes, secret messages, postcards. Doesn’t matter! A frequent complaint is that we send a lot of letters out but don’t always get many letters back.
Keith and Nancy Stubblefield found an interesting way to get mail. On their excursions around the country and the world they have hidden postcards with instructions that when someone finds the card they are to write something on the back and send it to the address provided.
Their web site, Postcards from Strangers, has the collection of cards they have received. Go check it out and tell them how fabulous you think they are. Let it inspire you to go out and do some epistolary madness of your own!
I ran across this great blog post that has letters to soldiers written by kids. It’s got pictures of the letters and drawings. Really cute! This is a great idea to do if you’re going to send a care package. See if a local school will let you include letters or drawings from the kids. Great idea!
Go see: Stadelbacher’s Adventures
[Sidenote: Today is my father's birthday. He's no longer with us, but served his country as a Marine for 20 years until he retired. He worked as an air traffic controller and was near the front lines during Vietnam. Happy Birthday, Dad.]
I’ve shared stories with you before about people who had been penpals for many, many decades. Here is another one I ran across about two women who have been writing to each other since they were pre-teens and are now in their 70’s. How remarkable! Enjoy!
Read: Across the Pond…
Tags: penpals
Liss over at A Memory Forever is making a new meme or game or pay-it-forward or whatever cool name you want to call it.
She’s asking people to become Snail Mail Angels and for them to inspire others to do the same. Who knows what it will turn into, but let’s give her a hand in encouraging people to write more letters.
Head over to her announcement post.
Tags: snail mail angel
