Part of my job description involves sorting mail. Early mornings at the mothership, sorting through tubs of flats and trays of letters from the USPS before heading out on the electric ass bathtub.
The first hour of the day I’m in autopilot robot mode sorting through hundreds and hundreds of letters, cards, medical journals, magazines, catalogs, newspapers, large envelopes, whatnots, curios, baubles, trinkets and brick-a-brack knickknacks. Sorting it all into neat little cubby piles for each of the different routes around campus, all the various medical centers, downtown, Harborview, UW Bothell and UW Tacoma too.
But once in a while, as I’m plowing through it all, I pause and smile when I realize: “this one’s for me”
This postcard is from Thai Bui, my penpal in Palo Alto. It arrived on Friday tucked neatly into a tray of letters and ended up in my hands. The postmark placement on the front-side adds to its overall one-of-a-kindness. This is original artwork. And with two stamps on it, you can call it a postcard too.
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