I have always found myself writing things down and doodling. Writing has provided safe spot for me over the years, and iuckily comes very naturally. However, sharing my writing with others and sending letters hasn't always been something I do, even though I probably could have been better understood in my relationships if I had written my feelings down to express them when verbal communication failed.
In college, I suffered many losses and life-altering changes in my world. My roommate from my freshman year was murdered, and a year after that both of grandmother's died within three weeks of each other. To say I needed an emotional outlet to heal my sad and grieving heart would be an understatement. It would have been cathartic to have realized how healing the outlet of writing when suffering through grief really is, and to have had a place to post the letters that I should've written to my lost friend and grandmas.
Fast forward to this year. I live near one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the country. It sits atop a hillside overlooking the Pacific ocean with blue skies and waves crashing rhythmically below. I find myself visiting it regularly and appreciating its history as well as the beauty and serenity I find there.
One day I was driving into the cemetery and saw a beautiful post box at the front gates and thought to myself, "wouldn't it be cool if people could write letters to their loved ones in heaven (or wherever they are based on different belief systems) and actually "post' them?" And in that very moment Divine Mailboxes™ was borne...in my mind.
Then I went online and saw that a nine-year-old girl from the United Kingdom named Matilda Handy had recently done just what I had envisioned. Matilda missed her grandparents with whom she had close and loving relationships, so she wrote them 'letters to heaven" and had them posted in a memorial post box at Nottinghamshire cemetery.
Right then and there I thought it was time to bring the idea of Divine Mailboxes™ to fruition in the United States because I would have loved to have had a place to post my heartfelt thoughts and feelings to my college roommate and my grandmothers when I was suffering so deeply.
So, it's 2024, and I have launched Divine Mailboxes™ in the hopes that in some way I can help people heal by providing a plae to "post" heartfelt letters to heaven, and beyond.