What you want to do with your postcard will vary so there will be no one single right or wrong way of doing things, but there is certainly a case for always putting something on both side of your postcards. A beautiful companion set to the award-winning and internationally beloved phenomena, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, adults and children alike will love receiving, sending and displaying The Wild Cards So I’m the youngest of four. Samy is the oldest. It’s boy, girl, boy, girl. But growing up, for sure, my siblings were the loudest, especially Samy, especially during dinner. I moved alone. I moved on my own to New York and so all the coming out process, all the exploring who I am, and becoming who I am was kind of a process that happened independently from my family. I think there was a time when I spent four years without seeing any of them in person. Anyone who’s moved to New York has been lonely. I mean, it really can eat you up sometimes.

We might feel alone but we can create art still when we’re feeling alone. When you feel just so separated from the world, you can still create something beautiful. And I saw at The Met Store that they have these collections of one hundred postcards. One hundred masterpieces at The Met. And when I saw that, I said, “Eureka! This is it!” The front of each card bears one of Morris's Greenaway Medal-winning paintings; on the reverse, you will find an accompanying quotation from one of the spell-poems in the Lost books, as well as identification of the species shown on the card. The remaining space is left blank for you to fill in these wild cards with pen, pencil or paint– and then send them out into the world to make and renew connections. Such a simple thing doesn’t cost more than a moment of your time to design online and then a little pen ink, so if you work with high value customers or clients then it would be silly not to make a little bit of extra effort to get what could potentially be massive gains. Selecting the right card for your postcardsThere was times that he was very depressed, and I could tell by his writing because usually, he would fill out the full postcard. There was times where it was just a couple of sentences and said, “sorry, I’m just having a really rough time.” Even though we have different beliefs, we were still able to find that middle ground or those things in common that we really like, like art, you know, things that just make us go, “Wow.” So, you can really see how we have evolved and all the, you know, trials we’ve faced as humans and I would just walk around and walk around, and it became kind of this good place, you know, to go learn and think about life. Frame of Mind is produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Goat Rodeo. At The Met: Head of Content Sofie Andersen, Executive Producer Nina Diamond, Associate Producer Bryan Martin, and Production Coordinators Harrison Furey and Lela Jenkins. At Goat Rodeo: Rebecca Seidel is Lead Producer. Megan Nadolski is Executive Producer. Production Assistance from Char Dreyer, Isabelle Kerby-McGowan, Cara Shillenn, and Max Johnston.

And I was there struggling because I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m far away from my family. It’s mentally exhausting. We’re not really allowed to read any other books outside of those authorized by your leaders, by your church leaders. A lot of people have felt the same way of being lonely. Your postcards can be printed for you on either a sturdy silk board or classy eco-friendly recycled board. Here are some things to consider: I think the unicorn was captive, but it is also free meant to me that in my religion, we have a lot of laws, a lot of commandments to keep, but it is also freeing to keep those commandments. So that’s why it’s so profound to me, just knowing that being free doesn’t mean not having any laws, not having any rules. That’s not what freedom means. It means finding joy within those rules. And we decided we are going to go to The Met and we’re going to get there as early as we can. And we’re going to go try and find each and every single one of the art pieces in these postcards. And we’re going to take pictures by them. When I left Guatemala, she was just eleven and she was just a little girl. There is a picture of her just like bawling her eyes out and holding onto me and saying goodbye. She was wearing a brown shirt and I was wearing a pink shirt. I’m so excited and she’s just so sad. I think she understood that I was leaving.

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I started to think about it a little more after turning maybe ten or twelve because I was different from everyone else.

And it was almost like a must, of like, “Okay, you’re done. Now come over here to New York and let’s go to The Met!” New York was kind of this crossroads for me. It’s when life got real, I remember just wanting to give up. And thinking, I don’t think I can do this anymore. I don’t think I can keep doing this. This is too lonely of a path for me. Writing the postcards was a way for both of us to feel love for each other. You know, choosing to be vulnerable, choosing to on purpose, share our lives, choosing to think of each other. Um, that allowed us to grow closer together and kind of share in our struggles, in our victories, and, uh, to celebrate each other. So the very last one he sent me was in the 26th of May of 2018. I was finishing my service as a missionary. One of my favorite movies is, um, Moana. As an immigrant, you know, you leave a place you love to find who you truly are. So it’s just a movie that really resonated with me.Ready to get designing? Then browse through our designs or upload your own artwork and remember our postcards can be printed for you on either a sturdy silk board or classy eco-friendly recycled board. Resell your printed postcards When I think of Melina growing up, I remember all of us sitting around the table and everyone’s just kind of screaming loud and talking and like, blah, blah, blah. She allowed that into herself, into her soul. She invited it in. And that moment in the light and in those colors was a completely healing, miraculous, transformative experience. So, I kind of knew that the type of life I wanted to lead would not happen in Guatemala and the type of opportunities that I wanted to have were not there. And that’s why I decided that I would try to go to college in the United States.

Being alone with my parents, when all my siblings moved out, helped me find my own relationship with my heavenly father. I feel like I had the time, I had my parents to ask questions. Really having prayer in my life and the scriptures have helped me realize that God is there. Samy is a person that does things very fast. Everything’s fast-paced in his life. And we spent the whole day at The Met. Not tall enough to keep him inside, but enough to just guard him, and around it is tons and tons of different types of flowers.

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Ganesha statue, 14th–15th century. India, (Orissa). H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1964 (64.102) A beautiful companion set to the award-winning and internationally beloved phenomena, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, adults and children alike will love receiving, sending and displaying The Wild Cards.