New Project

Because I am proud of it, I want to show you all my new stationary set. I made it!

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I chose out that paper colour and envelope colour myself. I cut the letter pages down to size. I chose out, cut out and glued on those little nautical adornments. I hand-cut those envelopes and sealed their edges myself. I went out and bought a brown pen that writes really nicely and echoes the brown of the envelopes.

It feels really good to mail letters. There’s something triumphantly social about dropping an envelope in a mailbox, of besting the hundreds of miles separating you and your correspondent, that email just doesn’t seem to have.

The act of writing by hand is a very clarifying experience, as well – one that I feel like we might be losing, as a culture.

And so, this stationary set! It feels triumphant and real to me.