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Paper Hope Special Event: Letter To Future Self

I have something special for you and me.

One of Paper Hope’s most beloved events is going virtual (A.K.A Zoom)!

Let’s write letters to our future selves and do a small art project (if you want) in preparation for the new year (good bye 2020). We have several letters from last year to read together - I am mailing them or dropping them off so you have them for the meet up. Wont it be interesting to see what was on our minds pre-pandemic?

Look for an event first full week in January.

More than ever in our lives, let’s look to the future with hope. There are glimmers of it all around us, but its hard to see when we are bombarded with daily mental fatigue. I have some info to share that might help set your mind at ease as we turn the corner into the new year.

Have a coffee or a coco in hand, hang out virtually and participate in our annual letter to our future self Meet Up!

Our meet ups are casual and meant to help foster community. Our meet ups are a safe place for women and girls to learn, share and grow. All ages are welcome and encouraged. Paper Hope believes in multi generational conversations.

This is no wrong way to be a boy... or a girl.

We are muted for the next several days to support and amplify the voices of the black community.

Change does not happen overnight. A few days of silence is not enough. We will continue to support the fight for racial justice for the long-term and we urge you to do the same.

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Hello Paper Hope Community!

I love this time of year! Reflecting on the prior year and planning for all the goodness coming in the impending year is the best!

One thing I and my family have done is to write yourself a letter either by hand or by using futureme.org. When finished with your letter put it in an envelope and store it away so you can pull it out next year and read it. If you use Future Me, date your delivery to New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.

In your letter be sure to specify the things you think will happen in the coming year, the things you want to have happened, things you are afraid won't happen. Include any message you wish future you to receive next year.

This is a fun way to get what you would like to happen in the coming year and plans started.

Those of you who do this each also know the byproduct of this activity. Opening your letter from last year, you will have no idea what you wrote. I have done this activity for many years and never have I remembered all that I wrote.
This year's letter will most certainly have some tale of woe about school, work, bills and who knows what else, but barring that, I have no idea what's in it.

The byproduct is seeing and feeling how some things we worry about - some to the point of harming our hearts and displacing our happiness - really always find a way to work out. It might not be the way we imagined, but the things we worry about always have a solution.

Your yearly letter to yourself will show you time and time again that the items you are most worried about typically have found their resolve by following you. And if not resolve, some relief.

I hope you will join me, my family and friends in participating in this New Year's activity. I will be opening my letter in a few weeks with some local Paper Hope folks. I will be sure to share what is in my letter and the letters of other participants.

Lastly, remember, there is no rush. Take your time with your letter. This is a loving and fun activity to do for yourself. Enjoy the process.

All my love and Happiest New Year!

Tamra