{"id":3291,"date":"2020-06-12T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:36:06","slug":"jurnal-de-coronavirus-11-calatorii-din-garsoniera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2020\/06\/jurnal-de-coronavirus-11-calatorii-din-garsoniera\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Diary (11) \u2013 travelling from my studio\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am definitely part of the “majority”. Part of\nthose who, during the March-May isolation period tried to find remedies for\nboredom. (This, after cleaning, teleworking, watching Netflix, gardening,\ncooking and I don’t know what else\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my ways to have fun was not to lose my practice in\u2026\nsending postcards. A childhood custom, kept even now: from wherever I go, I\nsend postcards to family, friends and anyone else who wants to discover in the\nmailbox something other than invoices and letters from the fiscal authorities J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As these months I have already missed two vacations from which\nI could have sent postcards, I decided to travel\u2026 from my studio! So I went in\na hurry to the neighborhood Post Office to buy lots of postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, what do you know, they only had two models in stock \u2013 those\nwith two old houses. Not the huge Parliament House, not the Athenaeum or some\nshowing the Village Museum. No. So, after buying both, I switched to Plan B: I went\nto the box in which I stored hundreds of postcards I and my family have brought\nfrom all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this occasion I realized how much money I had spent on\npostcards\u2026 Some are funny, some are even beautiful, bought when I had a black\nand white film camera or, during the recent years, from places where I knew my\nphone would never catch the perfect angles of the postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, so I took lots of postcards from the Personal Archives J and started writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote and sent some to friends abroad, to friends from\nother cities in the country, but the greatest fun was to send postcards from Bucharest\nto\u2026 Bucharest. (0,39 euros for a stamp. And internationally, 1,75 euros. I had\nno idea what the prices were anymore.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POSTCARDS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I started with my mother, who is only a few kilometers away\nfrom me, but to whose house I didn’t go that often, as a safety measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On postcard: April 1, 2020<\/em>. Greetings from my studio. During the stay home period, we will get to communicate like this too\u2026 Kisses! Stay home!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note the friendly ending\u2026 That’s because my mother, like a\nlot of other retired people, kept going out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, out of the hundreds of postcards I bought, I\nchose many with cities from around the world. From Paris to New York, from St.\nPetersburg to Tokyo. And I sent them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To some, I sent postcards with their own favorite\ndestination, to turn the knife inside their wounds; to others, with cities\nwhere we went together, to make them nostalgic; to some I sent cards even with\ntheir place of origin, where they could not go due to the state of emergency;\nand to others, with countries where they should have spent their vacation\nduring this period\u2026 Sadistic, right? J)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To those who were on the barricades, I sent a sign that we are\nhere and we are thinking about them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n