Letters to the World: Monthly Letter‑Poems on Belonging

What if we wrote to the world the way we write to a friend—plainly, tenderly, and with the courage to ask for nothing but presence?

Letters to the World is a monthly practice of belonging: one letter‑poem, one prompt, and offers something you can put up on the fridge, tuck in a book, or mail to someone who needs a reminder that they’re part of the human chorus.

Small Weather

Dear World,

Today I measured the wind by the way our neighbor’s spruce tree nodded yes, yes, yes. I watched a child drag a stick through a puddle and learn the alphabet of ripples. My to‑do list insisted on the loud things. My bones insisted on the small weather that happens in a body when it remembers it belongs.

If you have a spare minute, come sit with me at the kitchen table. I’ll make tea. We’ll pass the sugar. We will not fix each other. We’ll leave a chair empty for the person we’re still becoming. When we rise, the spruce will still be agreeing with the sky.

Love, Someone trying to pay attention

Prompt (5–10 min)

Write a 5‑sentence letter to a place that knows you (kitchen table, bus stop, river bend). End with the phrase: “I belong when…”