THE LOST TOUCH POST
A monthly mail club for anyone weary of how the days, months, and seasons of our lives blur together - and anyone interested in learning how to mark them more meaningfully.
ABOUT
In an era where the world feels like it is moving too fast, it’s not uncommon to feel we’ve lost touch - with ourselves, with others, and with the earth.
As a species, our lives were once punctuated with rich communal rituals and ceremonies that marked the different seasons of the earth and the phases and milestones of human life. Despite the pace and pressures endemic to the machine of modern life, the desire for ritual and the instinct to meaningfully mark the moments that make up our lives still resides within us. We are yet remarkably ceremonious creatures.
This monthly mailclub is about leaning into this instinct and testing the hypothesis that perhaps the key to resisting the relentless pace and becoming more present is rebuilding a vocabulary for ritual and ceremony and a rhythm for it in our lives.
Drawing inspiration from anthropology, biology, poetry, and personal experience, each month members will receive a letter offering a reflection on how humans before us have marked seasons of the earth or stages of life. Accompanying each letter, you’ll find ritual cards and reflection prompts with practical suggestions to help you more meaningfully mark whatever season you find yourself in.
IN THE ENVELOPE
Letter: Written by real humans, each month’s letter will offer a reflection on practical ways to cultivate a sense of presence in the modern age, infomed by how other humans before us have marked the moments, seasons, and transitions of life.
Ritual Cards: Three artfully designed cards with ideas for simple ceremony ideas to help you connect with the season you are in and designed to become a collection to draw from again and again.
Seasonal Event Calendar & Reflection Prompt: A seasonal art postcard with upcoming dates (eqinoxes, solstices, etc.) to remind you what is happening in the earth and reflection prompts to make you aware of what is happening within you. These postcards double as a keepsake reflection log for your year.
& a miscellaneous surprise! A little something extra that will change each month.
BEHIND THE POST
We are a couple of old-soul sentimentalists and dabbling writers trying to build a life that makes us feel more human, as fully and as frequently as possible. We love experimenting with new cocktail recipes, walking in our lovely old New England neighborhood, writing with fountain pens, and adding to our collection of vintage glassware that we do not have room for.
Our idea of an ideal evening is a slow stroll at sunset, followed by an unnecessarily fancy home-cooked meal, a couple of Old Fashioneds (tea, on weeknights), candles and crooner music in the background, and uninterrupted hours for deep conversation or creative work. Those evenings might not happen often, but they’re magic when they do. ✨