Here, Take This, I Love You: Chapter 1

Souvenirs from my storage, a new series just for you.

Here, Take This, I Love You giveaway items pulled from my storage.

Hi friends! 

For years, I have wanted to do something unique and meaningful with all the amazing mementos I’ve saved up from my career as an actress, director, and writer. My closets are stockpiled with three decades worth of memorabilia and treasures—more than any closet should ever be expected to hold. Now, it’s time to give some of them away, with the story behind each of them revealed.

Welcome to the inaugural post of Here, Take This, I Love You, a new series where some special artifacts from the vault of my memorabilia could become yours. 

Throughout each month here at Listening in the Dark: A Place to be Heard, I’ll be giving away items from my work and life that I’ve collected over the years—from signed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants scripts, to Joan Girardi memorabilia, to rare chapbooks and broadsides of poetry, signed copies of my books with special surprises inside, and even envelopes filled with goodies stuffed by my soon-to-be six-year-old daughter. (Who knows what she might put in there! A note! Stickers! A toy! Lint! The possibilities are endless.)

HOW IT WORKS: To celebrate the launch of this new series, our first giveaway will be open to subscribers of all levels. You will be automatically entered to win just by being a member of our community or by becoming a subscriber before Friday, January 27th at 5pm ET, when we will select the winner and notify them by email. Feel free to leave a comment on this post and tell me something about yourself, or why the item might have some meaning to you, or just put 30 enthusiastic emojis of a person raising their hand.

There’s no ask in return, though we’re always grateful if you’d consider telling your friends, family, and social media platforms about our community here.

Today’s item from my storage is something I’ve been excited to share with you for months: a limited edition chapbook made especially for the release of the anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition.

When the book came out in October of last year, I asked my friend, Bill Roberts, a chapbook artist who specializes in limited edition letterpress prints, if he would make a small chapbook from an excerpt in the final chapter. The excerpt is from the essay “Roadmap, Revealed,” which guides the reader through a step-by-step exercise in reconnecting with one’s intuition. The excerpt, and the book itself, are meant to feel like a portable guide to be used often, whenever facing big life decisions that require a solid gut check. The book is handbound in black velvet with gold leaf lettering and small enough to fit in a pocket. It is 1 of only 60.

One last thing. Today, paid subscriber benefits kick in and this series will become part of that subscription level for all future installments. Paid subscriptions help support everything we do here, from the editing, to the writing, to the programming, specially curated just for you.

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Here, Take This, I Love You: The Fine Print

• The winner will be notified via email, so be sure to add LITDsubstack@gmail.com to your contact list!

• Unfortunately, we can only ship to the U.S. and Canada. 

• If you would like to opt out of this giveaway, please email us at LITDsubstack@gmail.com and we’ll be sure to exclude your email from being entered in this series.

• Please be considerate of this series and how much some of these items mean to me, personally. Giveaway items are not for resale.