OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE № 001
You can be rich in mornings. Rich in things you've noticed. Rich in songs that still do something to your chest. Rich in good rocks, thunderstorms, tiny traditions, neighborhood lore, library books, inside jokes, excellent toast, and knowing exactly which floorboard creaks.
We're collecting the other kinds of wealth.
Receive today's assignmentTHE DEPARTMENT OF WHIMSY
A thousand small invitations to become slightly more interested in your own life.
You don't have to know the story. Making one up is permitted.
Department note: Objects with inexplicable dents receive priority consideration.
CURRENT DEPARTMENT FINDINGS
A pocket full of rocks.
Knowing where the neighborhood cat sleeps.
A recipe written in somebody else's handwriting.
A friend who understands why you sent them a picture of a cloud.
The smell right before rain.
Finding something you thought you'd lost.
OFFICIAL RECORDS
Previously issued assignments. Filing order is technically chronological, although the Department's relationship with chronology is under review.
OFFICE OF CITIZEN CONTRIBUTIONS
Did you see something ridiculous, lovely, unnecessary, mysterious, tiny, oddly shaped, or otherwise deserving of official notice?
Send it to the Department. Reader contributions may become future assignments or field reports, with credit if you want it.
OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENCE
One letter, once a week. Small things worth noticing, seasonal nonsense, reader field reports, and an occasional matter of great importance involving a frog.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Wealthy Whimsy is about becoming rich in the things that don't show up in your bank account: attention, wonder, curiosity, connection, beauty, stories, and play.
You do not need a cottage. You do not need a perfectly curated life. You do not need to buy anything.
You may simply become slightly more curious about Tuesday.