Postage Due

I have been writing letters for as long as I can remember. My first memory of writing involves carefully creating pages full of curls and loop that I thought resembled my mother's perfect cursive. It's bizarre to think that I can remember a time without writing in my life, especially since writing has become essential to every moment thereafter. 

From then on, I wrote secret notes, love poems, and even the occasional attempt at songs. I stuck to bad short stories mostly. Often affairs of grossly exaggerated teenaged love that I had no experience with.

It wasn't until middle school that I picked up postcards as my favorite type of communication. They were short, sweet, and to the point and yet carried with them a poignant image to give background to the text. As a very visual person, I loved this element. I didn't care that my friends rarely responded to them, I always picked up a few when I went on vacation and sent them anyways. It was always like an act of Christmas in the way it was more about giving than receiving. 

I have a memory of going to the National Postal Service Museum in Washington D.C. in what must have been the spring of my Sophomore year. I got so giddy at the thought of buying nice looking stamps to attach to kind words I had written to my friends. I ended up with Ronald Reagan and one commemorating the anniversary of the boy scouts. 

It wasn't until I got more into art that I realized that corny, glossy images of a state's capitol weren't always going to cut it. It was around then that I started making my own postcards. Now granted, I am not a master painter. I'm not a master-anything. My designs were often rushed, abstract or typography based because I excelled in those areas. It still makes me smile to hear that someone has received one of my cards in the mail and that it made them happy. That's really all that matters to me.

So tell me, if you were to get your dream postcard in the mail, what would it look like? Where would it come from? What would the message say? I'm curious to hear what you have to say dear readers.