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Handwrite or draw a letter or postcard today — and mail it.
You’ll feel both free and full: free of screens with their algorithmic manipulations and culture war distractions, full of your best self. Reunited with your essential goodness.
Crucially, you’ll also be reunited with the best selves of others when you set the paper letter trail in motion and others gleefully reciprocate. A letter! A real letter!
Surely that’s a state of civic well-being and well-wishing we crave now.
This is the conclusion I’ve reached after working 500-plus hours at Letteracy Deck, the world’s first and only free, public outdoor letter-writing park that I created in June 2023 on the shores of Lake Superior in Grand Marais. Writing, drawing and mailing frames the short, clear heart truths we feel, but rarely share.
Perhaps now more than ever, we need to share through handwritten correspondence —that millennia-old slow, soft, gentle medium of connection. We have rope burns on our spirits from post-election friction. The sincere, but light touch a letter brings is a genuine salve.