One envelope at a time, by Hannah Brencher
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When she went off to college, Hannah Brencher started a simple habit: exchanging handwritten letters with her mom. Inside the envelopes that arrived in her dorm mailbox, she begins to know her mother, for the first time, as a person – and as a friend.
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| 0:00.0 | It's in this letter and the letters that keep coming that fall where I meet someone who |
| 0:21.5 | isn't just my mother anymore. |
| 0:24.8 | She isn't just a caretaker or a person to call on a bad day, she isn't just an emergency |
| 0:30.5 | contact. |
| 0:32.5 | Somehow we've crossed borders and boundaries and we're becoming friends. |
| 0:39.4 | Real friends. |
| 0:41.2 | This is new territory. |
| 0:43.9 | It's as if we knew the possibility always existed. |
| 0:48.0 | But for the first time, we're jiggling the door knob and allowing ourselves to walk in |
| 0:54.0 | this space. |
| 0:55.8 | My mother leading me still. |
| 0:58.8 | We give one another advice, acting as sounding boards, we send one another jokes and letters |
| 1:05.7 | and packages. |
| 1:08.4 | I watch her and coach her from the sidelines. |
| 1:18.3 | Hannah Brencher is the founder of More Love Letters, an organisation that helps people connect |
| 1:23.7 | through the age old art form of words handwritten on a page. |
| 1:27.7 | Today in honour of Mother's Day, we bring back Hannah's meditative story from October |
| 1:32.0 | of 2019. |
| 1:34.2 | If you're listening to this episode for the first time, I think you'll find it to be |
| 1:37.8 | a very relatable nostalgic story unfolding around letters of love between mother and |
| 1:43.4 | daughter. |
| 1:45.0 | If you're listening again, I hope you'll sink more deeply into the ideas Hannah shares. |
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