Taking Note No. 12
The Unsent Letter
Welcome to Taking Note, a weekly hand-drawn addition to Feed the Monster where I aim to give you extra food for the monster and inspiration for taking note of your life.
Please click on the heart ❤️🔥 if you’d like to help this publication be seen, and grow!
🪞Thank you very much for being here.
🪞If you find value in my posts, please consider supporting me and my work by becoming a paid or free subscriber:
🪞Or please click on the little heart, leave a comment, or share this post.
🪞Buy TAKING NOTE: Creating Ourselves Through Journaling—$42 CAD. More info here.
🪞Buy my Collage Class—$40 CAD for a 1-hour download. More info here.
🪞Listen to my interview with Sheryl MacKay on CBC’s NxNW here (starts ten minutes in). It’s all about Life’s Work: A Visual Memoir, an art exhibit about my mother’s Lewy Body dementia and my relationship with her
🪞Visit balampman.com
🪞There's always Instagram
As a journaling workshop guinea pig I wrote a couple of unsent letters. The first time I deliberately avoided writing the unsent letter that’s been festering in me for the past 18 months. It may have exorcised some negative feelings and thoughts, some residual anger I’ve been carrying around, but on the other hand I worried that it would just fuck me up. Ended up writing one to someone about something I had not really thought about - something good, positive. It functioned as a realization and left me feeling unexpectedly buoyed.
Beautiful! I love letters, sent and unsent! And I *wondered* what B.A. stood for!