Love is in the air.

My first wedding invitation. Trying to find a way to make it to Italy for the celebration. The invitation was designed by Jenny Fisher. Very beautiful.

This is the note placed in the card on top. The lady is thinking about the wind.

Summer days.
LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Mathew John

Stitched with love.

Busy day. I ended up not making it to the mailbox till midnight. What a lovely surprise.

"I miss the feeling of inspiration"

"I am living for myself and that is both exciting and limitless and terrifying."

~Charley

I couldn't agree more with this letter. My search never feels over. The mind goes to fast. I make my body go fast to slow down my mind. When can I stop moving to stop thinking?

Off to write my response,

Mathew John

Behind but busy.

It's almost gotten me sad lately because with my daily visit to the mail box producing nothing new.

Here's some cheers from Charley who thinks I'm great.



Then again I'm not writing as many postcards as I used too.

Maybe new pen pals who are old friends will kick this summer pen to paper difficulty.
Ainsley is my dear friend who has taken off and moved to Australia for life and love. I spent the summer roaming around with her sister Barbra in Quebec.

Since we were tweens Ainsley has had the best for of story telling. One day I will load one up.


Another set of sisters: The Boutilier.

Hopefully if you read this your close enough to make a visit at sometime to Saltspring Island. So perfect it could be a cult community. I had the pleasure to go to a wedding and stay at one of the most amazing houses every.
Also my favourite cafe in Quebec city is called Temps perdu. (Lost times)





Neal has a way of showing up in random places full a smiles. The same happens in my mail box.

We are that friendship that doesn't exchange numbers but look forward to the next run in. It is almost better in todays world to have friends whose contact is slightly limited and not so instantaneous.












"How can I save the world with nutrition if I can't even remember the difference between soluble and insoluble fibre?" -Erin G.

Happy to have Erin home safe from Nepal. It makes me want to get in my car and drive 6 hours to get that hug. Thank the heavens that the mail only takes a couple of days verses weeks.

This card comes from a night market on her layover in Hong Kong. It is it's own wonderment how I have all these pieces of paper from all over the world in my red velvet box. Memories and moments.

Back to it.

A letter that sat in my friend Mark's house. Every time I came over in the last two weeks he would show it to me or ask me to mail it off for him. Worth the wait. (Just like blogging again.)
Fan Tan Alley is one of those places I cannot get out of without spending 20 dollars. Victoria for the size of the city is so full of crooked corners and wonderous space. The city has the same type of citizen. Natasha is out playing her accordion with bravado. One day we will meet. anticipating laughs and tears.

Our written exchanges are deeply treasured to me. A remembered conversation loses it's honesty with time. The pen on paper is forever spontaneous and forever available.

This a story of Barbra day at Tam Tams. In Montreal on Sunny Sunday's a community has formed. Anyone with a drum or and ear, head down parc mountain to take part in the largest weekly drumming circle I have ever seen. The hot sun and the rhythm one with the lazy Sunday.

Back to it,

Mathew John

Sent~ May & June

I didn't have my computer or scanner but I did still send mail.

May 1st
Natasha
Anja

2nd
Erin G.

4th
Elyse

5th
Erin G.

7th
Neal

10th
Mark
Erin W.
Becky

11th
Elyse
Care

12th
Elyse
Chelsea K
Anja

13th
Neal
Mom
Paisley

14th
Stacey

16th
Erin G.

19th
Natasha

20th
Grands
Erin G.

21st
Anja

26th
Natasha
Fahn

29th
Anja

Total: 28

June 1st
Mark
Ainsley

16th
Elyse
Natasha

20th
Mark
Becky
Elyse
Erin I
Elyse
Sophie

21st
Charley

22nd
Natasha
Mark
Neal
Anja

25th
Charley
Natasha
Elyse

29th
Natasha

30th
Ainsley
Kortnay

Total: 21