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Monday Mailings

Monday Mailings

by Uncustomary | May 12, 2014 | Snail Mail

There’s nothing like a mail social to reignite your love of mail. On Thursday, I joined a bunch of enthusiastic and creative ladies at the National Postal Museum for the monthly mail social. We used the generous supplies provided for us to write letters and make...
Snail Mail Social: Holiday Edition

Snail Mail Social: Holiday Edition

by Uncustomary | Dec 14, 2013 | Snail Mail

I mentioned that the Postal Museum in DC is hosting a snail mail social on the second Thursday of every month, and since it’s December, this month’s was holiday themed! Lots of people came, some with their own cards to decorate and some ready to make cards...
Correspondence Salon

Correspondence Salon

by Uncustomary | Sep 26, 2013 | Snail Mail

As I’ve mentioned, on Sunday, I got to go to the Postal Museum in DC. The Inverted Jenny stamp was re-released, and it turned into a giant party. I’ve never seen so many people in that museum, but it makes sense! Not only could you get first day release...
Card Writing Party

Card Writing Party

by Uncustomary | Nov 29, 2012 | Snail Mail

I’m really glad that I got to attend my first letter writing social this year, plus another, and just this week a card writing party… just in time for the holidays. Melissa, of craftgasm, organized the event at the Mount Pleasant library in DC. I prepared...
Letter Writing Social

Letter Writing Social

by Uncustomary | Nov 5, 2012 | Snail Mail

I got to go to another letter writing social! This one was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Becky, Bonnie Jeanne, Marguerite, and Anne were there. It was in a bookstore that used to be a movie theater.. the Midtown Scholar. They had set up four tables with a plethora of...
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- 🎰 gamify your goals - 🧮 try to beat your highes - 🎰 gamify your goals 
- 🧮 try to beat your highest score
- 🪎 rack up points for completing tasks
- 🪙 trade in points for rewards
- ⏳ track your time spent on an app like habitica 
- 🌳 use a reward sticker chart (forest app trees grow)
- 🕹️ act like your life is a video game
- ⏱️ set time limits
- 🎲 wheel or dice for tasks
- 🎯 set challenges
- 🤼‍♀️ compete against someone else
- ⚖️ batch something fun with something less fun
- 📲 play Pokémon go if you’re trying to get exercise or get out of the house
- 🧽 channel Pippi Longstocking when you’re doing chores 

#merrimentmaking
My wanting and my choosing are both tied into: ex My wanting and my choosing are both tied into:

expression, creativity, communication, ideas, play, words, messages + being heard.

It's not just what turns me on. Well, it is. But it's mostly what makes me feel ALIVE? Magnetically, acutely alive.

The answer, in part is: say it. name it. write it. communicate it.
After a statistically improbable amount of evidenc After a statistically improbable amount of evidence that being alive can be absolutely brutal... 🥴

🙏  I still want to see what happens next.

That's what I mean by strange hope. 🦆

🌻 First essay drops tomorrow!!
✍️ For a year, I'm writing an essay a week! I bel ✍️ For a year, I'm writing an essay a week!

I believe the best art is detailed and honest. And that's what I can promise you this will be. 😅

🧮 The truly statistical improbable thing is that after an improbable amount of evidence that life can be absolutely fucking brutal... I still have hope. 🙏

If you're someone who also feels like their life has been a polycrisis, you're not alone. 😵‍💫

I want you to know that no matter what your life has been like, it doesn't have to end you. ☔

First essay drops on 📅 Thursday.
When I was writing my first book (over ten years a When I was writing my first book (over ten years ago!) 🖊️ I didn't think I had lived enough to write a full-on memoir.

Now, I feel differently. 😅

❣️ New essay drops every Thursday!
Leave a 🌈 if you would have honked! #uncustomaryh Leave a 🌈 if you would have honked!

#uncustomaryhonk #uncustomarystreetart
💌 love letters 🐶 squish face dogs 🎁 coworker celeb 💌 love letters 🐶 squish face dogs 🎁 coworker celebrations ☀️ positive bumper stickers 💚 mint green vans 🤾‍♀️ bouncy houses 💋 lipstick tissues 🐈‍⬛ kitty cuddles
😛🫈🧃 What's something silly you noticed this week? 😛🫈🧃 What's something silly you noticed this week? 👀⤵️
“People of our time are losing the power of celebr “People of our time are losing the power of celebration. 🎉  Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. 🙏 To be entertained is a passive state- it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... 

Celebration is a confrontation, 💫 giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
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