101 Postcards from Wales

• Corgis, Lost Lands, and Ryan Reynolds: A Story about Welsh and the Importance of Language

  A Nation with a Heart We have an old proverb here in Wales, “cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon”. That is, “a nation without a language is a nation without a heart”.  And Wales is a nation that almost lost its language. In 1847, Wales was in a state of social unrest. That unrest had…

• Postcard #3: Cardiff’s Christmas Markets 🎄

  The People I’m still working away at documenting all the postcards I’ve sent in the past year, including this batch of cards I sent to my workplace’s “distributed postcards” group this past January. Working remotely for a global company has a way of showing you how the world is both big and small at the…

• Postcard #2: Cardiff’s Roath Park 🦢

  

  The Person Another pairing in my company’s “distributed postcards” group led me to sending a postcard to Raúl. Raúl is an amazing colleague from Spain who is full to the brim with warmth, kindness, and generosity. I realised, too late, that I’d received way more than I gave in our postcard exchange when an assortment…