'Tis the Haunting Season!

I have been mailing and receiving spooky mail for many years now, and researching how to build this blog has been an incredible skulking pleasure down memory lane.

And the perfect reminder about the plastic pumpkin pail full of mail to finish sending out, letters and cards to reply to. Things to draw, envelopes to sticker!

Me to you, hallowed reader… and me to haunted self…

More time is needed to be spent at a desk, pen and scissors in hand, with pretty paper, washi tape, an ordganized box (…unorganized pile) of stickers, a mug of coffee or apple cider, a spooky cartoon playing in the background, something to say, memory to share, conversation to start.

"Did you know...?"

"Do you remember...?"

"How do you feel about...?"

"A weird thing happened to me on the way to the graveyard..."

The world is busy, I am fully aware.

I am growing increasingly convinced one of the reasons life is so busy is because time is ensnared, by undesireable demands on attention, by mechanizations that steal concentration without consideration.

It is October 26, as of writing, in the year 2025.

And as of writing, I have 14 letters to respond to and 5 cards I promised to mail in August, 2 in September, and 4 in October. This is so common in my letter writing! There is never the time!

And, my fellows, I hope you will join me in this sentiment: It is time to make time. To call it back, to take possession, to thrill and enjoy.

The one caveat, I demand of myself (and recommend you copy for yourselves):

• No guilt.
• Or negative feelings.
• Allow none of these to gain a foothold.

There is a multiverse of actors and their activities that prey upon guilt over "lost time" or "misspent days and nights".

I will not allow them into my studio. I will not tolerate them in my life. When a regret is found, it will be dismantled and disposed of.

I hope, for you, the same.