Letter 1

Dear Friend,

It’s Saturday morning, and I have two glorious weeks off of work, and I have all sorts of plans. My main goal, actually, is to write a letter every day. I did this once when I was in a freshman in college. I felt stuck and confused about some things, so I wrote a letter to a friend every day during Lent. They were very one-sided letters that didn’t really require any sort of response (and I’m sure that says a lot about me that I can keep a one-sided correspondence going for so long), but they were so healing for me. They weren’t so much reflections on what I was learning and discovering as much as…