September 2005

We found the water by accident. It flowed sweetly through the high desert, over pieces of quartz and our toes.

January 2006

Begin the story in a bar.

This postcard included an excerpt from Umberto Eco's book Focoult's Pendulum.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Then it suddenly flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come.

--Matt Groening

June 2006

This postcard combined with July 2006 is titled Meet Me at the Jetty. It culminated in a group of 15 postcard recipients meeting at the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake.

December 2006

This postcard included an excerpt from Wallace Stegner's The Spectator Bird:

Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and liked where I came from. I was used to a dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to the horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors -tan, rusty red, toned white- and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sage-brush, and the sight of bare ground.

January 2007

This postcard included an excerpt from A Confederacy of Dunces.

February 2007

This postcard was delivered in a red envelope with this Bon Jovi lyric: "Shot through the heart and you're to blame. You give love a bad name." It functions as a "pop-up" card.

December 2007

Dad makes this every year, and Grandmother's lettuce plate is always reserved for it. I'm not sure why Dad feels the need to make the red jello star with pineapple -nobody eats it though we all anticipate it. But it occurs to me that it is a precisely calculated feet of engineering -the gelification point where the star holds its shape but still slides from the mold in one single wobbly masterpiece, plus the melting point must be considered.