This site has lain fallow for over a year.
I had lost my momentum in sending letters out to world and local leaders. The pandemic that swept across my community and quarantine put most of my projects on pause. My family and I sheltered in place and watched the world outside our windows go ablaze due to social unrest with some of our political leaders fanning the flames. This year has been a dark one. As a parent, I have had to teach calm and admit that ours is a dangerous world, yet offer hope for a future time when all is behind us.
Recently, however, in the space of a couple of weeks, two letters reached our mailbox: one from Dom Dinis, the Duke of Braganza and pretender to the Portuguese throne, and a dual letter from the British Resident and United States base commander at Diego Garcia in British Indian Ocean Territory. Their letters were inspiring, and they illustrated how there are people both concerned and striving to make their corner of the world a better place. Their words were encouraging to Anson – they affected him to think about what they wrote, deeply.
And it is due to Dom Dinis and those letters from the British Indian Ocean Territory that I’m re-starting this project. This month I’ll start by sending letters off to non-governmental and religious groups; they often fight for making the world a better place. And then, I’ll draw a straw and see what continent is next.