Quirky thoughts from an old man.
I’ve been a member of Postcrossing now for six years. I enjoy sending and receiving postcards from around the world. I’ve sent almost 4000 cards and I’m in the top 100 members from the USA. One thing I’ve noticed is that some countries are per capita much more likely to do Postcrossing than others. Germany …
Here is a wonderful postcard application that I just found about and joined. Thanks to Stephanie M. for forwarding this one. Postcrossing Basically you register with Postcrossing and then send a postcard to an address they supply. When the card is received Postcrossing sends your address to someone else in the world and that person …
“What could we have done better tonight?” This is what a restaurant manager should be asking instead of the usual “How is your food? A small change might elicit some useful information and some goodwill. “How is your food tasting?” usually doesn’t do that. Photo is of one of the postcards I send that is …
Sonder Noun: The feeling one has when realizing that every other individual has a life as full and real as one’s own. It is a synonym for “Grok” a made up word from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Example: “The festival and the feeling of oneness in a crowd filled …
“Decades of entitlement promises are finally running into reality, reality is going to win.” Photo is from a Postcrossing postcard I received. I have no idea where it is from, who took it or if it was heavily colorized. I just know it is stunningly beautiful.
Good days bring you happiness. Bad days bring you experience. This optimistic saying was on a Postcrossing card I received from Russia. It was unsigned so I can’t give direct attribution. But a short Google search turned up Richard Feynman, the Cal Tech professor as the originator. The photo is in the American Bar in …
I received this great Sonoran Desert Christmas Postcard from a Postcrosser in Canada. I’m going to try to track it down and use it for my card next year. As Lantern Press says “It’s all about the image.” I’ve used the same card for about four years now and it is getting old fashioned. My …
“First Save, Then Buy!” This illustration on this postcard is a reproduction of a matchbook cover distributed by the East German Government in the 1950’s. West Germany was zooming ahead of East Germany economically and this little bit of propaganda shows that one way the East tried to counter it is by claiming the moral …
I received this postcard of the Matterhorn in a thunder storm from Claudia in Germany. It is the first in a series of weekly postcards. I’m not sure how it will evolve yet but this sure is a great image to start with and it looks like a postcard that had a long journey. I …
I belong to Postcrossing and many of the active members are from Russia and Ukraine. It has been an interesting year for them and for the administrators of the group. I recently received two cards that tell stories that we don’t read in our media. This card is from Moscow it says in part: “And …