Flower Box Postcards: 100 Postcards by 10 artists

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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 It makes us feel connected. It makes us feel like an adventure. It makes us feel loved. That connection of feelings is what makes art so powerful.

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. The things you have learned will guide you and nothing on earth can silence that quiet voice still inside you. And when that voice starts to whisper.” While living in Guatemala, homophobia was everywhere. In the Mormon church, certainly, there’s a lot of work to be done.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. Senior producer is Ian Enright. Story Editing from Morgan Springer. Series Illustration by Sophie Schultz. I’m your host Barron B. Bass. A special thanks to our guests on this episode, Samy Gálvez and Melina Anderson Gálvez. I had never had a chance to even get to know her. And I felt like I didn’t really know who she was.

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. 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. I felt like I was really changed while I was in my mission, by the people, by the adventure, by every single postcard Samy sent, and he has built me into the person I am today. And also words of encouragement or words of telling me, “I am proud of you. Your whole family’s proud of you.” It’s just very important to hear, you know?

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.

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. Oh, I found it. It’s this one. It’s a Ganesha statue, which is like an Indian God that controls all obstacles. And he added something that says, “Sometimes we pray so that the obstacles may be taken away in our lives. But I feel like God rarely takes away obstacles. Usually what he does is give us the strength to overcome them. Keep this card because there’s a hundred of them. With love, Samy.”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. 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. I think that sending the postcards not only helped him, but it also helped me, like it helped both of us. 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. Both my mom and dad are very faithful Mormons or members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.