MY NEXT BIG IDEA: 365 Letters

I have muddled over this for a while.  I miss writing letters.  I miss receiving letters.  There is something special and wonderful about some pretty stationery or a bright postcard in the mailbox.  It balances out the notes from our mailman/cousin saying our mail has been stolen and left all over the neighborhood.  Writing letters, however, is really a lost art.  We email, we text – we just don’t write letters anymore.

I cleaned up my home office a little, and I realized I have enough stationery to write my congressmen, all of them, every day all year.  Fortunately, I don’t want to write to them, I want to write to people I like. 

I have had this idea that if you wrote a letter to someone every day, that your life would be magically better.  I don’t know how, but I keep thinking I should try it and see.  I have come up with all kinds of rules I should follow over the years, and while I am great at other people’s rules, I don’t follow my own rules very well at all.  So to heck with the rules. 

I aim to use up my stationery.  I will write letters.  If they are private, I will spare you the details, but I will post who I sent to and maybe why for each day. 

Let’s just see where I end up.  I will start posting after my 29 days are up, so stay tuned.

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