There is a little community on Facebook called ' Letter Earthlings' where the intention is to spread love and hope through letters. This began in Bangalore, India and then it also evolved in Sri Lanka. It was not easy at first to build up a community, a space, and there was no clear intention, so there was some struggling, a sense of feeling lost and frustrated at not being able to get it off the ground.

However, on the 1st of January this year, the intention suddenly sparked up in my head, and this made me want to try again, and I started with revamping the entire page. I felt like I should start from scratch and what emerged was beautiful. There is also the individual practice of leaving letters of love around for people to find, and this time a dear friend who is also a part of this eco-system suggested a hash-tag on each envelope, and voila! some of the letters were tracked on our Facebook page ( http://facebook/letterearthlings.com).

This inspired me to organize a gathering where we could get together in the spirit of community and write letters for others we know and do not know. There were five letter requests that came up, with people wanting letters for their loved one's going through rough patches in their lives, and there were letters written for strangers as well. We had about 15 people at a local coffee shop, where we wrote letters, letters and more letters. The atmosphere was one of love, hope, community and trust.

The letters are now being made ready for delivery/postage where they will travel from hand to hand, until they meet their final recipient. It is also with an expression of trust that you post a letter, because once you put it in the post box, it is totally out of your control.

The next gathering is scheduled for somewhere around valentines day, where we hope to write letters for hospital staff, security guards and others who are silent heroes in our community