Do you remember when you were young, in grade school perhaps, and your class wrote letters to students in your sister school in Russia or China or Germany? Do you remember the excitement of holding on to a little piece of someone else's life? Someone you would never meet? Someone half a world away?
Well, I do. And I miss it, dammit.
It's not that my same-hemisphere acquaintances aren't enough, no. There's just something really special about getting connected in a very small but real way to someone way out there.
The internet is not our only hope. Of course, it helps, but there's a tangible method that I'm about to try. Postcrossing is a free online service that acts as a postcard matchmaker. Basically, you register and request an address - of another Postcrossing member. You get their address and a special ID code and off your postcard goes in the mail. When they receive it, they log in and tell the system, and then you're next in line to receive your own postcard. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm testing it out ASAP, so stay tuned for a full report. :)
Well, I do. And I miss it, dammit.
It's not that my same-hemisphere acquaintances aren't enough, no. There's just something really special about getting connected in a very small but real way to someone way out there.
The internet is not our only hope. Of course, it helps, but there's a tangible method that I'm about to try. Postcrossing is a free online service that acts as a postcard matchmaker. Basically, you register and request an address - of another Postcrossing member. You get their address and a special ID code and off your postcard goes in the mail. When they receive it, they log in and tell the system, and then you're next in line to receive your own postcard. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm testing it out ASAP, so stay tuned for a full report. :)
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