February 2026 Stationery Kit Reveal!
Every month for the past four years (!!) I've created a curated monthly kit of stationery to send to subscribers. I love dreaming up each kit, and it's so fun to think about all of the snail mail that goes out into the world because of them!
In each bundle, I include a typed letter and lately I've been enjoying finding just the right poem to include for you. Below is an excerpt of February's letter.
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February 2026, Volume 47
Dear ones,
It’s that time again, when I sit down to write to you and offer some kind of personal insight or invitation or prompt for you to think about as you write your own letters and cards to loved ones.
This month is the shortest of the year and comes at a time when many of us are beginning to tire of winter and dream about warmer days. It’s also been a challenging past month for many. I hope that in times of challenge, and perhaps of despair, that we look to our communities for strength and encouragement.
I read the poem “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, and it resonated. I suppose there are two ways to look at it - either a retreat into nature during times of turmoil is a form of escapism and avoidance, or it’s a way to replenish and nourish the soul as a form of resistance. My personal view is of the latter.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry
I really enjoyed putting together the kit this month. The new illustration is the bleeding hearts, and though they don’t easily grow here in New Mexico, I have memories of this wonderful flower growing in the garden of the house where I grew up in Pennsylvania. I also have a memory that, for whatever odd reason, resurfaces in my brain every so often of my brother’s dog tearing through the yard in such a fit of excitement that he crashed into and practically destroyed a bleeding heart plant in full bloom as we all stood watching. We were in horror, yet how to explain to an excited dog that his happiness trampled a beautiful thing?!
Thank you for being here each month. I hope that your cards and letters make their way across time zones and borders and create moments of connection and joy with your loved ones.
May we all come into the peace of wild things, at least for a moment this month.
- Jen
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Here are the greeting cards from February's kit that are available individually in my shop:
BLEEDING HEARTS GREETING CARD >>
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