Expressions of Love...: I wish I was ...

Thursday, October 1, 2009

I wish I was ...

... anywhere but here! I am in Ohio. Yesterday it was 7 degrees celsius--IN SEPTEMBER?!?! Today it was a more bearable 11, but still. It seems a little ridiculous to me, as a native west-coaster and lover of temperate rains and relatively warm winters. And so I find myself dreaming of elsewhere (the romance of Paris, the exoticism of Beijing, the ruggedness of Uluru, the blissfully mild weather of Vancouver, Canada!) on dreary days like this, and naturally, when things get depressingly dark and cold, I go card shopping (is there a happier activity on the planet?). I haven't bought anything new recently (sad, but true) but here I just have some cards I've gotten in the past that make you want to jump up and go somewhere else. Enjoy. And take care to daydream.

Yea, yea, it's a postcard. But it's an awesome postcard that makes you really jealous when you pry it from your mailbox with shivering hands in the dead of winter, wishing desperately to be anywhere else. I mean, as I've said before, England is absolutely awesome--bleary English weather or not, how can you pass up the sheer oldness of it?

Sadly, I have never been to Paris (although I have studied French for 15 years. Crazy, right?). I have been to Estonia (I know, I know, where and what is Estonia?! It's a pretty awesome little country next to Russia. Very cute.) but never to Paris, the city of light! My friend sent me this, and as she has never been either, we vowed to go together one day! Just a little reminder of our wondrous future plans. (Think "We'll always have Paris", Casablanca style. Wouldn't that be just divine at this moment?)

Now, this is ultimate jump-up-and-go-somewhere-awesome card. It's basically saying to you, the minute you open it--where would you like to go? About what city would you prefer to fantasize today? Perhaps you'd like to sail to Stockholm (a lovely Swedish man at the helm, of course), or if that's not to your liking, you could always go indoor skiing in Dubai, or if all else fails, just some good old broadway-ing in New York, New York? Sigh. Too bad I have school. ;)

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Sealed with love...

Anyone, anywhere can fire off an email, send a fax or post something on your facebook wall. It takes a grand total of two and a half seconds--some text, the click of a button, and you're done. Instant communication, lost in the abyss of cyberspace--hardly what you would call an expression of love. With the advent of internet, yes, it's tragic, but true--we have almost lost the beautiful permanence of letter writing. Sure, it's slower and it's more tedious than sending an e-card, but it's the effort involved that makes cards, letters, notes in the mail expressions of love; because in taking the time to choose your stationary, write your note, enclose a photo or magazine article, and deliver it to a mail box or post office--you've just proven the depth and beauty of snail mail. You've just told someone, through your actions alone, that you love them.

You love cards. I love cards. We all love cards.

It's a reciprocal business, sending cards, letters, postcards, packages, flying elephants (ok, probably not the flying elephants, but if you do happen to find one, you should drop me a line). And so card-sharing should be a reciprocal business, too! Send me cards, letters, cool stationery, tidbits of mail--anything wonderful and whimsical that goes or comes in the mail. Scan it, add a little blurb telling us what it's all about--why it's special, why it's cute, why you love it, why we should love it--send it (sadly via email: cooper22722@yahoo.ca) and I'll post it. With love, of course.