Send Some (Snail) Mail
Bring back the art of mailing a letter to keep in touch with friends and family.
Let's make it a little bit more difficult for technology companies to gather your personal information via every text message or email or DM that you send to someone via the internet and social media.
Sit down at a table or your desk by the window with the sunlight coming in, take a pen (my favorite is the Uni Ball Vision Elite with the bold point) take a piece of cheap, lined notebook paper and just start writing a letter to the friend that lives 2000 miles away or the friend that lives 2 miles away. I've never heard anyone say, "Dammit I got snail mail from a friend today." You'll most likely make somebody's day when they go to check the mailbox and they see something in there other than a medical bill, an electric bill, or a letter from that one entrepreneur trying to buy your house.
Go to your local post office and buy some stamps. A few months ago I bought some of the coolest stamps I've ever owned, including some Ansel Adams stamps, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamps. ¡Muy bien!
When you're done writing the letter, address the envelope to the recipient, most of us still remember how to do this I think, put your return address in the upper left-hand corner and throw a stamp in the upper right hand corner of the envelope. Toss it into one of the many large, blue boxes that say United States Postal Service on the side of it.
I encourage you to do this: It's therapeutic to write and doodle and send something out into the world, if only because you'll be off your phone and away from the news, and utilizing another part of your brain.
Sending out tangible mail will feel like you've traveled back in time... perhaps even back to the 1890's, but seeing that tuberculosis is making a comeback, you'll be on-trend(!)
So, go. Go and write.
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Let's make it a little bit more difficult for technology companies to gather your personal information via every text message or email or DM that you send to someone via the internet and social media.
Sit down at a table or your desk by the window with the sunlight coming in, take a pen (my favorite is the Uni Ball Vision Elite with the bold point) take a piece of cheap, lined notebook paper and just start writing a letter to the friend that lives 2000 miles away or the friend that lives 2 miles away. I've never heard anyone say, "Dammit I got snail mail from a friend today." You'll most likely make somebody's day when they go to check the mailbox and they see something in there other than a medical bill, an electric bill, or a letter from that one entrepreneur trying to buy your house.
Go to your local post office and buy some stamps. A few months ago I bought some of the coolest stamps I've ever owned, including some Ansel Adams stamps, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamps. ¡Muy bien!
When you're done writing the letter, address the envelope to the recipient, most of us still remember how to do this I think, put your return address in the upper left-hand corner and throw a stamp in the upper right hand corner of the envelope. Toss it into one of the many large, blue boxes that say United States Postal Service on the side of it.
I encourage you to do this: It's therapeutic to write and doodle and send something out into the world, if only because you'll be off your phone and away from the news, and utilizing another part of your brain.
Sending out tangible mail will feel like you've traveled back in time... perhaps even back to the 1890's, but seeing that tuberculosis is making a comeback, you'll be on-trend(!)
So, go. Go and write.
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