The Provo Museum of Postal Art

  I’ll go my own way. I’ll make my own bed. I’ll do what I do; New paths will I tread. Don’t waste your sweet breath On vending advice To this nonpareil – It won’t turn out nice. And if I succeed With joy and with glee – You can bet your long life No one’s more stunned than ME!

  “News of the imminent shuttering of Ringling Brothers Circus has revived interest in the big top — not just among the exalted media, but even down to the local grade-school level. Several of my grandkids have requested my presence in their classroom to demonstrate the old slapstick razzmatazz.   “I have informed them that I will take their request under advisement and have my social secretary get back to them as soon as possible. “They all know that Grandpa Tim is an old bum who spends most of his time trying to sneak past newspaper paywalls while eating beans straight out of the can, and that he doesn’t even own a drugstore calendar, much less have a social secretary. So they roll their eyes at my playful evasions, wishing, no doubt, that the bumptious geezer would just say yes or no. “But it’s complicated. “On the show, I was dragooned into appearing at hundreds of schools during the season. Or so it seemed. This meant getting up at an atrociously early hour, like 7 in the...

  CALL TO ARTISTS Open Call for Kindness at the Dolphin Gallery in Gualala, California, USA October 2025 Deadline to Submit: 4 September 2025 This is an open call for mail art. This call is open to anyone around the world on the theme of “Kindness”. Participation is free and all artistic, pictorial and graphic techniques, both analog and digital are accepted. The works must be sent by the postal service. Parcels are not allowed and postcards are preferred. The works will not be returned. Please indicate on each work: Name Postal address Email The curator team will attempt to post all works received on  Instagram @kindness.mailart . There will be an exhibit in October 2025 at the Dolphin Gallery in Gualala, California of all the works, coordinated by the curating team. In addition, the curators will select their favorite works to include in a book. If your work is included in the book you will be notified. How to Enter: Send your works to: KINDNESS Mailart P.O. Box 384 Gualala,...

   Behold, I have dreamed a dream . . . 1 Nephi  8:2 A dreamer of dreams would I be; Caught up in eternity. The dark nights made bright With sharper insight Of Christ’s plan for full harmony.

  ... and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain. 2 Nephi  2:2. O, consecrate my troubles That they bring me peace at last. Thy spirit, Lord, poured out On me is gain most unsurpassed. Riches, honor, earthly mansions, I can do without . . .  But if those, too, are sent my way You’ll find I will not pout!

  Thou hast declared unto us hard things, more than we are able to bear. 1 Nephi  16:1 How much truth can my soul bear? How much hardness do I dare? Lord, increase ability In me to hear and learn and see. For I’m a child, an infant squalling, When I know thy voice is calling Me to higher purpose by Hardships that I think too high. Thy path is true but complicated; It must be walked and not debated.

  The Church of Jesus Christ is known as a church that emphasizes making covenants with God. Covenants are inherent in each of the ordinances of salvation and exaltation this restored Church administers. Pres. Dallin H. Oaks.  General Conference.  April 2024. Can you be saved, much less exalted, If on your covenants you have defaulted? All you who trifle with God’s lawful way Should know that your freedom costs too much to pay! Come back to the gospel, the temple, the plan, That keeps you protected from devil and man. These words that I tell you, I also must heed: For mercy, forgiveness, I too always plead. No one’s immune from a swift fall from grace; But keeping the covenants my sins may efface! For Christ can lead anyone down the true path That keeps them from sorrow, from torment, from wrath!