A brief, generic ‘having a great time – wish you were here’, sometimes a deeper gesture to encourage a reconnection, a snapshot glimpse of an enchanting place you’ve yet to experience yourself, a quick message of love and devotion possibly accented with a hint or a smack of sultriness, steam or scent of perfume, or coupons to entice you into purchasing a new product or service, and now, for me and for 250 plus others around the world, a unique way to just share a short, sweet message of unconditional optimism – a grand way to shine a flicker of light, blast of color, texture and design in between the not as exciting packets of junk mail and bills. Can’t wait to receive my first card from the Benevolent Postcard Society, I await its arrival with keen anticipation – and I hope my new friend likes the one I sent along, my beloved sheep from the LA zoo. Thank you so much to Lori Langille for letting me be a part of this beautifully inspired project – just made it in under the wire – I am so thrilled.
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September 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Yeah this is so cool…it’s quite big now, the whole postcard exchange thing…there are a few books on the market with this concept in mind…it’s quite refreshing, the return of the ‘postcard’..nostalgic and sweet, simple and humble connections between people, pen pals. The Benevolent Postcard Society doesn’t let you do this any more but there are plenty of sites and many blogs out there that do this, it’s worth a google search. Here is one, http://www.postcrossing.com/
So cool that you did it Donna. It would be awesome to see your postcard in their book wouldn’t it? I wish you posted your postcard here..
September 5th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Oh…sorry…you do have your card here…LOVE the BELOVED sheep…
September 6th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Hi Orly, thanks for telling us about this postcrossing site. Yes, I am very excited about this adventure – it will be for the entire year so I will be sending out 12 cards and I will happily receive 12, and then the plan Lori has is to display them in a gallery in Canada and publish them, so it will be very cool to see them all together. She also has some other great ideas for us all to do with them as well – so go check out her site at: http://benevolentpostcardsociety.blogspot.com
September 7th, 2009 at 7:50 am
That is so awesome Donna…the year plan and the unique friendship with Lory…the other day when I visited the LB flea market I found this 75 year old man selling boxes and boxes of really old postcards. I asked just a couple of questions, enough for him to start pouring his wonderful stories of these personal cards, he told me about his and his wife’s travels and postcard sending tradition, his life adventures. But sadly when I asked him how come he is selling all these personal treasures he got teary eyed and said none of my 5 children or the many grown up grandhildren want anything to do with these…to lift his spirit I told him light heartedly that I wouldn’t mind if I was his 6th child…and I really wouldn’t…I would be a rich woman and I don’t mean it materialistically of cource if I had one of his boxes.
Anyways Donna, it’s worth checking out, he is not the only one selling these old amazing nostalgic story telling postcards. Every third Sunday of the month in LB.
September 7th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I love this idea that your group is doing. I have a collection of old cards going back over 100 years from my parents and a dear friend of the family. Many are from Sweden and its wonderful going through them, they are all so unique. I wish I could read Swedish to glimpse into the past. I think the man who Orly ran into should keep them for his grandchildren, you never know who may take an interest in the future. And its so much more meaningful if you have some personal connection to the sender/receiver. Can’t wait to see what you receive each month.
Donna Says: I would love to see those cards some time – it is fascinating the different themes and styles they portray depending on the location and year they were created. Louis has quite a nice collection as well – a whole series of night time national landmark illustrations, lots of Greetings from this state and that and a collection of really wild holograms, just to mention a few. Maybe you can stick a couple of your favorites up on your blog and have someone translate them – that could be a bit risky though right – who knows what they might say – ahhh but that is the nature of the postcard though, isn’t it – if you don’t want anyone to read it you choose different kind of stationary.
Thanks for sharing!