Hello friend,

I hope you had a smooth entry into the new year. Is there a sense of new-ness still, in February? I think mine is gone now, having given way to a fresh-ness as ideas for spring-summer pop up from different corners.

I'm writing to you from my couch in Paris again, back from six weeks of blue-sky-winter in Japan. AQ is opening a second base outside of Tokyo, so I got to have a wild time with the team, stretching our field research legs across volcanic mountain ranges and lakes to the questions of Where do we want to be? Who might we become there?

My working theory is that the more we work and socialize online, the more we yearn for connection to place. And for those of us at home in networks, it would stand to reason that we seek that quality in how we connect to places, too—being at home in a network of places, weaving our lives with the people that inhabit them.

Hello friend,

I'm writing to re-connect, in hopes that you may be moved to shoot back a few lines or a photo or two, to share what's on your mind these days. I've been in a slow-moving transitional state, without a clear moment to send any Postcards... which you may have forgotten you've signed up for! If so, thank you for your curiosity. Today felt like a good day to sit down and write this.

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Three bits of news

Hello friend,

In Japanese, "my boom" (mai boo-mu) means something you’re hooked on at the moment. Something trending, but between me, myself and I. It might be a particular idea, a morning routine or the new bread pudding from 7-11. Your fascination requires no reasoning. It is simply your my boom.

One of my current my boom is dramaturgy, and figuring out what’s made possible when it’s tended to in the context of a project. I find it to be a deliciously awkward word. It's different from brand, storytelling or narrative but a clear distinction eludes me. Google even asked if I meant "drama turd". I did not, and am enjoying mulling over the concept.

The baby dramaturgist in me played with metaphors, and that’s how this newsletter came to be a Postcard :)

Hello friend,

This is my first newletter, the first Postcard, and it exists because I’ve wrestled to the ground the egoism of sending what’s essentially a BCC e-mail on "news from my life!". Which felt outright lazy of me, disrespectful to us, and why would anyone care…

Except you’re not "anyone". You’re someone I’m curious to better connect with, and I'm assuming, vice versa. Perhaps less happenstance updates from one of us will lead to new possibilities.

Thank you for joining me here.