I'd Like To Send You A Postcard
Join my postcard writing project and let's make a creative chain that reaches across the world
Who hasn’t been watching the Netflix adaptation of One Day? I’m only a few episodes in but the TV series instantly sent me spinning back decades because of one tiny detail in particular: Emma and Dexter writing letters and postcards to one another.
I know many of you had a similar feeling when
and I started writing letters to each other on Substack, we had no idea how much what we wrote, or indeed the act itself, would capture your imaginations.(For those who want to catch up, you can find the first of Lily’s letters to me here and then follow the series as we go back and forth over eight letters. We will return with another series in the Spring.)
But again, what appealed to many of you was the nostalgia of letter writing – the excitement of having a penpal, the anticipation of waiting for a letter, or a beautiful postcard from some exotic land, to drop through your letterbox.
In this digital age we seem to have lost this art – this act of sending someone a little piece of our own art…