Memories · 4 min read
On Keeping a Drawer Full of Postcards
A postcard is a small physical vote that a moment mattered.
Buy the postcard even when you have no one to send it to. Especially then.
Write the date on the back, and one sentence — where you were, what the air smelled like, who you were becoming. Put it in a drawer at home.
A drawer of postcards is a life you can hold in one hand.
Ten years from now, on a bad Tuesday, you will open that drawer. You will find the café in Lisbon where you cried in a good way. The train through the mountains. The dog you met once outside a bakery. Yourself at 29, telling yourself at 39 that you were paying attention.
The camera roll can't do this. The camera roll is too much, too fast, too easy to scroll past. A postcard makes you slow down and choose. Choosing is the whole thing.
Start this week. One card, one sentence, one drawer. That is the practice.
