What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?

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Dear readers of ADayInTheLifeOfRJ.com,

It is I, RJ. :) As you may have realized by now, I haven’t been blogging much for the past months and I assure you, it has nothing to do with my being busy with anything. And if you know me personally, you’d surely agree with me that I’m not one to leave out blogging for lack of ‘time’. The current ‘bland’ political atmosphere has had me quite disinterested in spamming your timelines, emails and feed readers with the usual political and social rants. Perhaps many of you welcomed that break, perhaps some disliked it — either way, I’m happy you’re still here wasting your precious time on my blog and reading on. :)

Which brings me to this topic, need I say, new public service I’ve decided to offer on this blog:

During the months I haven’t been writing much, I have seen immense traffic on this blog from people looking for ‘words’ to express themselves. Oddly, even as the web has been proliferated with poems, letters, essays and similar writings, I have observed that people still find it hard to craft words that would express exactly how they feel about important and beloved people in their lives. Others look for words to say ‘thank you’, ‘sorry’ and things like ‘I’ve been very stupid to have taken you for granted for the longest time..’ yada yada.. And though I have written a few generic ‘notes’ expressing related sentiments, I understand the need to speak to people in words that are uniquely yours (or at least in circumstances that are).

But some people are just regularly lost for words — sometimes even the most prolific writers and eloquent speakers buckle and jitter at the thought of writing to or talking to someone so dear to them.

And so, instead of writing generic letters/poems/odes I’ve decided to take it upon myself to ‘give you words’ and express your feelings in a much more personal way instead of just scouring the web for generic or somewhat-related articles/letters to serve your purpose.

Think of it as a public service Hallmark card online sort of feature/added service on this blog. It would be FREE. No charge. No catch. No ‘follow-me-on-Twitter-or-subscribe-to-my-feeds-or-download-this-ebook-and-I’ll-help-you’ sort of catch.

Just shoot me an email {lost4wordsbyrj [at] gmail [dot] com}, @reply or DM me on Twitter @rjmarmol to tell me a backgrounder of what you want me to write for you and I’ll gladly write that special love letter, sorry letter or thank-you letter for you, as personal as I can. You can opt to write me anonymously. Frankly, I prefer it that way. I also suggest you use an anonymous email to begin with. I’ll see if I can post a contact form on this blog to make it easier for you to send requests.

And don’t worry, anonymous or not, I value your privacy so NO PERSONALIZED LETTER WILL BE POSTED ONLINE OR OFFLINE, ON THIS BLOG OR ELSEWHERE. I guarantee that.

Responses/personalized letters will be sent to the same email you used to request/write me. I will not be sending them to any other email address. I hate spam and unsolicited emails as much as you do. And I wouldn’t want to creep people out by getting unexpected emails from me.

I took it upon myself to ‘give you the words’. It’s your job to take it to the person you want to send it to.

And one more thing, NO HATE LETTER REQUESTS PLEASE. I will only accept requests suggesting/yearning for peace and reconciliation and related feelings. There is enough hate in the world as it is, I have no plans of cultivating more evil.

That’s it. I hope I can be of service to you in the future.

[Disclaimer: I do not intend to and will never sell/share your personal information. The ‘more anonymous’ the request, the better.]

Always remember, your words aren’t really lost. It’s out there somewhere somehow and if you can’t find it yourself, let me help you. Who knows, maybe I can.

Love,
RJ

P.S.
This is still (and will always be) a political blog. ‘Lost for Words’ is just my way of giving back to the web. After all, politics is all about public service. :)

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