Over the past couple of years I've been sending postcards. I love
sending postcards! I use them as a way to share what we're doing and
just give a piece of my life to others that I love.
For a long time I would buy postcards and collect them whenever we
would go on trips. I would take stamps with me and I would write out
several postcards but I was also buying extras so that I could put
them away in my collection.
Now I use an app called TouchNote that uses pictures that I take and
then I can upload the picture type on the back of it and pick an
address from my address book and send it even while I'm out and about.
It's amazing!
What I found is that postcards allow me to share a little bit more
directly in places where I can't necessarily be as often as I wish
that I could be.
I remember my wife's sister would send postcards whenever they would
go on trips. Different places around our country, different islands,
we got a couple of postcards from Europe. It was a lot of fun! But
with her I always thought that she was bragging and trying to show
people how great she was doing.
I hope people don't think that of me and what I send on postcards.
They're one of those things where I'm thinking of them and wish that I
could share more of my life with them but I can't and so this way I
can let them know that I'm thinking of them. My thought is that they
might enjoy whatever it is that I send them.
I tend to send postcards of my wife's paintings to our kids and other
family members. I tend to send pictures of our adventures to our kids
after we visit them. That's a lot of fun!
I've started sending postcards to myself when we go on trips so that I
have a picture of the adventure when I get back. And I'll send one
every day so that I get a record of what we did and get to enjoy it
all over again when the postcard comes in after we get back.
If you've gotten a postcard for me I hope you enjoyed it! If you
don't send postcards yourself you ought to give it a try. It's
actually a lot of fun and it's a quick and easy way to be kind and
show love to others.
Have fun with it!
