A Postcard About Postcards
From digital to analogue...
This is an invitation to pause, even if it is only for a breath or two.
Last week, I sat with a friend at a museum café.
After walking through the museum and an uplifting conversation about art, we settled with our journals to work on our individual creative projects.
I opened the new notebook I had bought six months ago, which I had kept for a special occasion.
Then I pulled out a small stack of postcards I had printed at home. Holding those small paper postcards in my hands made me feel awake, present, and inspired.
I opened the first page of the journal. I got my green coloured pen ready. I felt something shifting inside.
The beginning of a new journey: a journal about postcard moments!
I went back and re-read what I had written here. Not just the words but how I had been showing up, week after week. Noticing, catching, keeping, and collecting postcard moments.
Sharing that space with a friend made it feel even more meaningful. As if we were holding quiet space for one another.
This project has always been about cultivating presence to remember joy. But something shifted in that café.
What once lived on a screen became something I could touch, revisit, and share. This is what digital to analogue means to me. Not a format change, but a deepening in presence.
It felt like a full-circle moment.
The same museum café where I wrote A Sunday Retreat postcard in January.
The same museum that houses Van Gogh’s painting that I mentioned in Walking Through Paintings postcard in March.
Without this quiet, gentle, weekly postcard commitment, none of these moments would have been noticed. Or remembered in the same way.
My mind would have been focused on other things. Not this.
The weekly practice has been imperfect, consistent, and gentle. And, it continues to expand how I see and experience my everyday life.
And maybe this is the real invitation: to notice more, to pay attention.
To learn how to catch meaningful moments before they disappear. To practice keeping them and returning to them.
I am grateful for this creative space which has allowed me to explore, notice, and share with you. Thank you for being part of this journey.
Your Reflection For The Week
When you look back from January to now, which creative moment are you ready to remember and share? Is there a post, a moment, a thought that you want to hold on to a little longer?
Our joint live is one of those moments. Thanks again!