Postcards are electric.
You had to take all the excitement of a moment of vision and squeeze.
You had to condense.
The challenge of the postcard was to get all your news on the back where the space for composition was small.
These were generally times of change and travel, new cities, new landscapes, new friends, new languages.
There was a time before Facebook and Twitter and Instagram when we sent postcards to people.
I get excited just turning a rack of postcards around at the drugstore.
Postcards are electric