Postcards are forever & So is Schizophrenia

Postcard Whisperer not so much… Saying goodbye

Revised from The Postcard Whisperer Farewell Note.  It disappeared when the newsletter was deleted.
It's been updated to reflect current events.  Thank you for your patience during this transition.
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LaLa 👋

Last weekend the Postcard Whisperer was scheduled to attend her finale at the Floridiana Festival. We paid for a stall for the two days of the festival which will take place in Sarasota at the Fairgrounds this weekend. Feb 20-21. I was so looking forward to going…. but no

Preparing for this wonderful occasion has taught me, I am not a vendor. I have put off preparing for this festival for months. Now that we are down to the final days to pack up and head to Sarasota, I have yet to move a single postcard.

How we respond to tasks teaches us a lot. For instance, in Jan, I didn’t go to my local clubs postcard show. It was a 2 day event, and I didn’t ask for the time off from work.

If I hadn’t set up the time off for this festival over 6 months ago on a whim, It would have been another missed opportunity.

But my body is still grieving. My back went out this week, and refuses to mend. It’s likely that if I cannot get some relief by Friday, we will forfeit the deposit on the stalls and be a no show.😢

I want to go, I want to be a vendor there, but my anxiety has hijacked my body, & with my defenses down from Divina’s Schziphrenic outbursts, I’m surrendering the whole of the decision to…well, “The Lord”. Divina happens to be holding a vigil with the lord at the moment. So…

My postcard friends, schizophrenia is ALL CONSUMING. I’m going to put my daughter first.

Maybe when I retire in a couple years, I will have the capacity to dabble in postcard events once again. Even so, I’m going to keep MyPicturePostcards.com as my gallery of postcards, but It won’t have a newsletter. It will also not be a business, just an infrequent hobby blog.

Until that day, we are going to Sunset Postcard Whisperer. I’m letting the domain go, I’m removing the Substack, I’m turning off the shop lights, and closing the door. That also goes for Postcard Fest. If things change around in the future, we will see each other at a postcard show, “Lord willin”.

You may still find social under Postcard Whisperer or MypicturePostcards. I didn’t brand either, so who knows, some up and coming new postcardteer may overtake it, and I think for the hobbies’ sake, I would welcome that.

Postcards will always be here. You can find me next to a stack of California or Idaho or Florida. Yes, Mr Mike, that means my museum is history too. But I have a good buddy at the postcard club who will keep your collection preserved just as it should be.

I’m so grateful to you for your patience with me these last couple years while I tried to figure stuff out with my daughter’s health. It’s just too much for me to do both, so I’m going to care for her. She’s worth it.

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Good bye Postcard Whisperer

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So I took down all my other Substack Newsletters, and all the socials. I did backup the articles to repost after editing in another format. It lightened the load quite a bit, but I don’t know excactly what to do with myself creatively regarding the topic of schizophrenia. It wasn’t meant to be a creative outlet, it was meant to document what Divina goes thru. Surely there will be some more minor transitions as we figure this thing out.

KO-FI

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Divina & LaLa 👋