https://omaciel.github.io/tags/stamps/Recent content in Stamps on Og Maciel's JournalHugoen-usFri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://omaciel.github.io/posts/2025-11-21-who-wrote-this-spoiler-apparently-me/Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://omaciel.github.io/posts/2025-11-21-who-wrote-this-spoiler-apparently-me/<h1 id="who-wrote-this-spoiler-apparently-me">Who Wrote This? (Spoiler: Apparently Me.)</h1> <p><img src="https://omaciel.github.io/images/who-wrote-this-spoiler-apparently-image-1.jpg" alt="assorted postage stamps on blue and white textile">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@itshopelessfox">Ali Bakhtiari</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></p> <p>I’m not a pack rat. At least, not in the way people usually mean it. But the first memory I have of being interested in collecting anything goes back to when I was around eight or nine, and I first learned about stamp collecting—philately. I was fascinated by the idea that these tiny pieces of paper had traveled through towns, across states, over oceans. They were carried by people, planes, and ships, and each one arrived with a little bit of another place attached to it. Through stamps, I felt like I could glimpse other cultures and countries in a way books hadn’t yet offered me.</p>