A Weekly Postcard Project
209 Weeks is a weekly postcard art project that will take place during Trump’s second term.
Despite the 2024 presidential election results, I believe that most people truly care about others. To remind myself of that truth, I am proposing a postcard based art project to help us connect with each other and make it through four more years of Trumpism. But I need your help. I want to gather your words of sustenance—your favorite quotes, lines of poetry, affirmations, reminders that feed and fuel you—and send those words on to someone else.
I will combine these words of sustenance with photography to create 209 unique postcards, one for each week of the presidential term. Each week, someone who has submitted their own words to the project will receive a postcard with someone else’s words on it. You can learn more here.
If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below. Thank you!
View the Postcards
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Week 52 of 209 Weeks
Week 52 of 209 Weeks: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. —The Serenity Prayer. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea in May 2024. I printed this photo
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Week 51 of 209 Weeks
Week 51 of 209 Weeks: “I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.” Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope Photo Notes: I think this photo was taken at a state park in summer 2022, but I’m not actually sure! Note: This postcard was created the week Renee
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Week 50 of 209 Weeks
Week 50 of 209 Weeks: “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20 Photo Notes: This photo was taken in Chicago, December 2023. I have no memory of what this is.
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Week 49 of 209 Weeks
Week 49 of 209 Weeks: “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” —Victor Hugo. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Soudan-Vermilion State Park in October 2025. A large robin was snacking on this very tiny apple near the lakeshore. Because of the robin, I found a long abandoned, spindly apple tree!
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Week 48 of 209 Weeks
Week 48 of 209 Weeks: “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” —Maya Angelou Photo Notes: Buddha’s Birthday Celebration, Jogyesa Temple, Seoul, South Korea, May 2024
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Week 47 of 209 Weeks
Week 47 of 209 Weeks: “All goes back to the earth, / and so I do not desire / pride of excess or power, / but the contentments made / by men who have had little: / the fisherman’s silence / receiving the river’s grace, / the gardener’s musing on rows.” —Wendell Berry Photo Notes: Minnesota
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Week 46 of 209 Weeks
Week 46 of 209 Weeks: Some days it is what it is, and some days you just have to keep moving forward, and gather and love those around you. Photo Notes: Minnesota State Fair, 2024
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Week 45 of 209 Weeks
Week 45 of 209 Weeks: “It’s not about being unbreakable. It’s about being soft enough to bend without breaking.” —Yasmin Mogahed Photo Notes: Jogyesa Temple, Seoul, South Korea, Buddha’s Birthday Celebration, May 2024.
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Week 44 of 209 Weeks
Week 44 of 209 Weeks: “Without community, there is no liberation.” —Audre Lorde Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Jogyesa Temple in Seoul, South Korea during Buddha’s Birthday Celebration, May 2024.
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Week 43 of 209 Weeks
Week 43 of 209 Weeks: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Lady Windermere’s Fan, by Oscar Wilde. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Jogyesa Temple in Seoul, South Korea during Buddha’s Birthday Celebration, May 2024.