The Benevolent Postcard Society is the creative project of Lori Langille, a collage artist and blogger at Automatism.  I heard about this collaborative art project from my friend Mari.  She's a member, and thanks to Facebook, two California friends are also members. Each month we receive the name and address of another member, and our task is to send him or her a postcard on the first day of the month.  The first mailing was in September, and the project will last for a year.  As members live all over the world, one major discovery has been the vagaries of the various postal systems.

To date, I've received 3 postcards for the 5 months.  Two have been from Canada (Lori lives in Canada), one from Massachusetts.  I've sent postcards to Canada and Ireland.  What interesting to me is that both Canadian postcards have been scenes of cities at night.  My delightful January postcard is homemade, and pictured below with remnants of the snow/ice.  Thanks to Mary for making it!  I hope to  make at least one postcard before the project is over.