Sending Not-So-Serious Mail

Outside the window is the most beautiful rainbow right now.

I’ve been writing silly postcards and upbeat letters to family.  It’s one of the greatest ways to let my creativity flow.  I know they won’t judge me for sending them ridiculous jokes, so I will sit with half a dozen postcards in front of me and just start writing.  I can just be me and let that goofy side we all have buried deep inside come out – laughing!  (I started sending random postcards last summer.)

My closest friend in elementary school and I used to always get these insanely crazy postcards at summer camp.  If anyone got more than three letters in one day, she had to sing.  We were always singing for our corny mail.

I’ll never forget getting one postcard with a bunch of shirtless men posing on a sports car.  The back of the postcard said, “Oh baby, hurry home to us.  We’re just so lonely without your smiles.”

My cheeks turned SO red that day.  Everyone was always asking to see our postcards.  I just couldn’t hide it fast enough that day.

Just to clarify – these goofy cards came from my friend’s mom.  Oh she had humor!

She really taught me that life doesn’t always have to be serious. You don’t always have to write serious letters.  It’s okay to laugh.  It’s okay to make others laugh at your creativity.  It’s okay to write a letter that contains absolutely no objective, no “how are you?”s, and certainly no discussion of the weather.

So try this.  Pull out some of those postcards left over from some long ago vacation and write a silly note.  Put something fun in the mailbox.  Here are some postcard writing prompts to get you started.

When’s the last time you sent a letter just because?  Want to write a few with me today?  Maybe we can all team up and write to some people we love.

Be warned: when you send silly postcards, you may start RECEIVING goofy postcards! I like to hole punch them and add them to my journal (from Gadanke).