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 77 of 209 Weeks
Week 77 of 209 Weeks: “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” —Rachel Carson Photo Notes: This photo was taken in Waubun, MN in July 2025. I think the floret in the seedhead might be evidence of a disease or infection.
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Week 76 of 209 Weeks
Week 76 of 209 Weeks: I love you. Let’s be family. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in 2020.
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Week 75 of 209 Weeks
Week 75 of 209 Weeks: “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” —Dorothy Day Photo Notes: This photo was taken on the University of Minnesota campus in Spring 2019. Apparently it’s the only known “show tree” in Minnesota.
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Week 74 of 209 Weeks
Week 74 of 209 Weeks: “The only recognizable feature of hope is action.” —Grace Paley Photo Notes: The photo was taken at the Minnesota State Fair’s fairgrounds in 2020.
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Week 73 of 209 Weeks
Week 73 of 209 Weeks: “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” —Meister Eckhart Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the University of Minnesota’s iron pour in spring 2019.
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Week 72 of 209 Weeks
Week 72 of 209 Weeks: “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Socrates Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the University of Minnesota’s iron pour in spring 2019.
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Week 71 of 209 Weeks
Week 71 of 209 Weeks: “Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play with the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use—do the work you want to see done.” —Austin Kleon Photo Notes: This photo was taken…
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Week 70 of 209 Weeks
Week 70 of 209 Weeks: “Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it.” —Guru Nanak Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the University of Minnesota’s iron pour in spring 2019.
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Week 69 of 209 Weeks
Week 69 of 209 Weeks:Whatever it takesMAKE Whatever it takes—Anna Brones (Yes, the original quote is “Whatever it takes,” but I wrote it incorrectly on this postcard.) Photo Notes: This is the ceiling of a temple (maybe?) in Seoul, South Korea. This was taken in 2018. Correction—I believe this was taken at a palace, Changdeokgung.
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Week 68 of 209 Weeks
Week 68 of 209 Weeks: “All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can’t see.” — Mark Nepo Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the Jong Ie Nara Paper Art Museum in Seoul in 2018. Kwang Young Chun made this piece of art.