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. The whole thing runs on one idea: good things are usually small, and light is for passing on.
The lanterns
Every so often a new zine gets folded here, one sheet of paper turned into eight small pages of art and words about ordinary good things. Each one is called a lantern, because it is little and warm and made to be carried.
The boxes
The lanterns live out in the world, in small handmade mailboxes tucked around town, free for whoever finds them. 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.
The field guides
The longer essays live here, one per subject, kept up the way you keep a good toolbox: gratitude, one good thing, and discipline.
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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