Day #1: Thinking of You Week
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Day #1: Thinking of You Week
Who are you thinking about today?
To celebrate Thinking of You Week, I will send a short prompt like the one above each day. But if anyone else pops into your mind, write to them instead!
I’d love to hear who you decided to write to and why! I’ll be posting my own weekly activities in NOTES here on Substack and in my Facebook group “The Art of the Heartspoken Note.”
Have fun!
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#ThinkingOfYouWeek, #SendACardDeliverASmile, #Heartspoken, #HeartspokenNotes, #HeartspokenMovement
Great idea For years I have had “PROJECT PILLOWCASE” I am a laundry activist for the “Right to Dry” which simply means the right to hang out your laundry on a clothes line. I wrote and published Laundry Wisdom 2010 which a collection of stories of clotheslines. I visited several nursing homes to collect stories I in-turned would bring fresh laundered pillowcases. The response I got was overwhelming they could still smell the outdoors and it brought fond memories of their past. The collection of stories tells of a simple everyday routine of the past. Commonly told to me were men when they came home from war seeing the laundry hanging on the line for the first time in years brought a feeling to their hearts they were finally home. Women told me that they could tell what was going on in neighbors homes lots of bedding usually meant someone wasn’t feeling well. When a neighbor was expecting a new child they would wait to see if there were blue or pink booties on the line. One woman told me that she loved to see the children’s clothing grow as the child grew. There were many tales of unheard stories of the American fabric simply from hanging your laundry on the clothes line.
When I was a child it was popular to have a “Pen Pal” our teachers would bring a hat around and you would pick a name out. Your homework was to write one letter a month. Perhap I should find a way to start a “ Pen Pal” at seventy?
I love this project! We’re traveling this week, so I might not get any notes written, but I just might find some postcards. We’ll see where you find such things these days. Your notes mean so much, Elizabeth. You’ve brightened my day more than you know each time you send a note. Thank you.