My friend Judy sent me a postcard from Assateague—and I don’t know exactly why, but I’m so intrigued with this postcard! Think about it, postcard sending has become a lost art—these are the days of instant everything, phone calls, text messages, email… and so sending a post card is really a neat, out of the ordinary practice!
I remember sending out postcards to all of my friends when I travelled many years ago. One year I sent out a postcard to my parents every day—just to let them know where I was and where I planned to go next. This was my one summer in the Rocky Mountains and I was camping by myself. Of course, it goes without saying that this was in pre-cell phone days. By the time I got back my mother had saved all of my postcards and I could lay out my trip from end to end on the living room floor. It was kind of neat to see my whole summer’s travels before me…
Writing postcards has become such a lost art that you can even go online and see pages dedicated to How to Write A Postcard!!! http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Postcard
and the very subject has merited a column in the New York Times: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/aug/02/what-ever-happened-summer-postcards/
Thank you, Judy, for your postcard. I aim to take up the cause and send out postcards as well—be sure to check your mailboxes!
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