During the Coronavirus era of work from home, I've started sending folks postcards. Partially because:people like to get handwritten items, even if they don't initially think they will,I have a lot of stamps and no way to use themthe post office needs money and I need to use the stamps I have so I can buy more stampsI bought a lot of Last Week Tonight stamps, and I need to use them because they're funny,I have weird things to say to people I've known for a long timethere were a bunch of old postcards in several boxes from my childhood/teen years my folks left me. On the order of 100 or so. I don't want to keep them. They should be someone else's problem.Sent to Garm and Maggie: This is Elizabeth, married to Henry VII, and the female side of ending the War of the Roses. I bought this when I was in London in like 1991. Probably at the National Portrait Museum. [Image] Sent to Greg J: Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife that was married to his brother Arthur (who died). Probably also from the National Portrait Museum in 1991. [Image] Sent to Julie L: the Wren Library at Cambridge, from a visit to Cambridge in 1991 (you know, it might have been 1990. It was a long time ago). I loved that campus. One of my FOMOs was not going to school in Wales/UK when I had the chance and getting married instead. Life works out, but I loved my visits to England. [Image] Sent to Katie K: from a trip to Maine when I was in High School.. Probably to visit colleges with my family (I remember reading Red Storm Rising, so that was 1986..dang, that was only his second book). I sent this letter from Tom Hardy (my apologies for the impersonation Tom, but it was for a good cause) informing Katie that because of CV I was jogging cross country to meet up with her. Dirigo! [Image]
"Postcards in the Coronavirus Days - Part I"
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