Happy Valentine’s Day.
Is there someone in your life to whom you mailed a Valentine’s Day card this year? I mailed several this year, bec during this pandemic, mail is all we get to connect with people. Stamps can connect us to one another – through a written letter, a package, a card – which is something that has connected families and businesses since the Pony Express and even before.
And it gave me an opportunity use these beautiful old stamps, dating from sometime between 1995 and 2001. Some were the kind you had to lick. Remember those?
I recently cleaned out my father’s office and found lots of sheets of 32, 33 and 34-cent stamps, and 1 and 2-centers as well.
I’m sure my father intended to use the stamps, or why else would he have bought the 1-cent upgrades to keep up with rising postage rates?
Intentions. These sat pretty much in plain sight for 25 years – some of them. And they’re great to look at and admire – all the historical baseball fields, the denizens of the Great Plains Prairie, or the depths of the ocean, even a triangular stamp that commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the Pacific of 1897.
Of course, the postage is still accepted at its full face value, but to carry a letter first class, I had to add 20-something cents to each envelope.
If you cleaned out your office, what intentions would be discoverable? What would still be worth its face value? Ideas, poems? Half books? Whole books and plays? And what would it take to make them “first class” again for our times?
I’m waxing eloquent about connecting, bec one of the best parts of this whole pandemic era has been my writing groups. We write together. Silent, friendly accountability, 5 days out of 7.
Now, through the end of winter, I’m opening that writing opportunity to you for just $9 a writing session.
It might just be the $9 nudge you need to start something, get back to something or finish something you want to be writing.
Register here. You can come and write 2x a week, and get your writing habit re-established.
What we do –
We arrive on time. Talk no more than 4 minutes. I give a single prompt and give everyone 6 minutes to write on that prompt. We check back in – but we don’t read what we’ve written – If you love what you’ve written, you can post it in the FB group.
Then we just write. Quietly, each on our own thing. Whether you prefer to be camera-on or camera-off, we’re here, writing, editing, reading, researching – moving our important work forward.
It’s how we connect with people. And even how we connect with ourselves. The “postage-paid” for this connection is $9.00 and I created it as a Valentine’s Day gift – to help lots of people get back to the work they love. Register by clicking on the pic below. And once you’re registered, you can come as often as you like. I’ll give you a pay link in the chat, and you can pay on arrival. (Or buy all ten sessions and make a real commitment to yourself and your work. Read all about it HERE!
