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Month: March 2020

A year or a century

Published 6 March 2020
MR Summerville, “Mid-flight” (2019)

Someone asked me recently “how long will you keep doing this postcard thing?” At this moment, it feels inevitable, like breathing. I cannot not.

I know (I think?) there will be times where sending postcards will chafe. I may outgrow this project, or it may outgrow me. So I’ve made myself a promise. I’ll reassess at the end of 2020 / after postcard #100 and pivot or persevere.

Until then, let’s enjoy the journey together.

Appreciate the journey whilst working towards your goals

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023: Greener pastures ☘️

Published 3 March 2020
postcard front
Steve Buissinne, “Canola fields” (2016)

You’re the most delightful people, it’s been wonderful to know you. All the things you do, large and small, mean so much. I am full of sadness as you deserve so much more. My hope is that all your pastures end up greener and not just because of constant rain! My very best…

The idiom “greener pastures” has its roots in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria / Art of Love: “Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris / the harvest is always richer in another’s fields.”  [Book 1, Part IX, line 349]

Read the full text online of this witty collection of mock-didactic elegiac poetry at Poetry In Translation or download an ePub at the Gutenberg Project.

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