Tiny Lanterns
Small, warm things to carry into dark places.
This is a quiet corner of the internet, a place for small art and short words about ordinary good things, all of it made by hand and posted when it is ready. There is no feed and nothing is counting your clicks, so take what helps and come back whenever.
Notice, carry, leave
The whole project is one idea done three ways. The app helps you notice one good thing every night, the zines are little folded books of art and words you can carry in a pocket, and the boxes are small handmade mailboxes hiding around town where lanterns get left out, free, for whoever happens to find them.
The boxes
A few little mailboxes are out there right now, each one stocked with copies of the newest lantern. There is no map, because stumbling onto one is the whole point, but if one of them found you first, hello, start here.
Recent lanterns
Why lanterns
Starting small, on purpose.
The app
Tiny Lanterns is also a small private journal app that asks one question every evening: what was your one good thing today? You write a line, a lantern lights, and everything stays on your phone where it belongs. More about the app.
Letters, occasionally
New lanterns land in your inbox when they are ready, with no schedule and no noise, and you can leave any time.
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