About Lantern Letters
I am out with lanterns, looking for my Self.1
Lantern Letters are tender bundles of writings, art, and invitations on a number of topics, with a thread of Self woven messily through.
Creating, reclaiming, finding, rescuing, developing, and loving a Self.
Mostly I am writing about and to my Self, but you, dear creature, have one too. Do you know yours?
Having a Self is not selfish, as we may have been told. To the contrary: if I know and care for my Self, I can better know and care for other humans and all life.
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1 Adapted from Emily Dickinson’s 1856 letter to Elizabeth Holland on the topic of moving. "I took at the time a memorandum of my several senses, and also of my hat and coat, and my best shoes—but it was lost in the mêlée, and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself." Miller, C., & Mitchell, D. (Eds.). (2024). The letters of Emily Dickinson. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.