Letters are a more personal way to connect to your family, friends, and loved ones. It is a great way to let someone know you are thinking about them.

I struggle with the carbon emissions used to deliver letters, so I will be cautious not to go overboard. I keep in touch often via the internet, but I would like my friends, family and loved ones, to have the tactile experience of holding the letter in their hands.

Almost like a three dimensional memory.

I'm a borderline ADD kind of guy whose been too busy in recent years to follow up on some of the cool personal projects that keep bubbling up in my mind and in conversations with others. With some space in my schedule this year (read: less paid work), I've got time and energy to work on some things that I'm passionate about.

I am not making any new year's re-solutions this year. I am working instead on a new approach. Guided by the recognition that we don’t have to be limited to one kind of action or approach, I’m going to make some moves with a tool I wield clumsily, but passionately: words.

I know words have the power. The test is whether we (words and I) can make some positive difference when we act as a team. My aim is to use words to multiply qualities of justice, harmony, peace, union, spirit, communion, diversity, and growth. I'll be blogging about it, check back.

I have an idea for a book documenting ordinary "ecoheroes/heroines" in our midst, particularly in the Lower Mainland. That is people who are making a difference to the world and the environment, taking action, not just talking.