MOM. AND A MOMING, KIND OF LOVE.

MOTHER.

MOM.

MOMMY.

Our first, last, our everything.

To our heavenly angels, aunties, sisters, grannies, gigis, ancestors, organizers, nurturers. Women are 50% of population who’ve given birth to 100%.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Enjoy this tiny love offering for our dear loving mother figures, angel moms, ancestors and the whole world of sisterhood.

Grateful for all the mother-ing going on all the time. May infinite love and blessings flow your way. We Heal the World in Each Moment We Honor our Mother.

We honor those who are in heaven who lend their support and all forms of mothering on this and every day.

Another beautiful example of Mom's showing up without fail with what they have to give.

Memorial for Lindsay the Horse Best Friend of Kate Neligan. Pictured Peg Neligan holding Lindsay's bridle

Here's a few of the cards we sent out for valentines day.

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Melanie Lutz – Mel's Love Land

All Systems Love

Writer/Producer/Love Activist

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Handmade. Love. "Why Making Heart Art Cards to Share is the Ultimate Gesture of Love"

Whatcha gonna do at the end of your life when you are asked about the love you shared, gave away and received, unconditionally in this lifetime. During a challenging time when my Dad passed over the rainbow bridge, with a quick, debilitating diagnosis. It was rough, for us as the kids, but my Mom took it super hard, passing out, and needing to be rushed to the hospital. While tending to her at the hospital, some of the nurses shared how much quick losses and the resulting broken heart is a thing, a common thing. With Valentines Day coming up, I heard a voice that said, make this Valentines count, create 100 heart art cards and deliver them to your Mom and her sisterhood at her senior living center to remind them they are loved. A few of my artist friends joined me, we went to the flower market grabbed white roses and when Valentines Day came around we had a beautiful day of love and sharing in abundance.

Love is in everything. All around us. If you are not experiencing loving, there is something out of alignment. Consider what action to extend love and kindness might be your work do in for your beloved community.

Love. in action.  

Each year we've honored this practice of delivering love in the form of 100 handmade heart cards. It is part of each new year and something we as a group now treasure. Each card created is made with love to remind, "YOU ARE LOVED!"

We believe in the practice of biophilia, the love of all living things, and the luscious practice of acting with our loving in all our interactions.

HEART ART CARD MITVAH PROJECT 2024

We shared cards early this year, as a special way for us to connect with a senior and mail our gifted heart cards to their loved ones, extending our offering to spread the love for valentines. So much wisdom exchanges in taking a moment to connect in community, to give when you have more energy and to receive gratitude when the tank is low.

Oh, the stories we were told. Such a blessing.

Spread love. Share love. Look for the Lovers.

What is love but an experience of vibing with all that is in perfect harmony. Find ways to connect in beloved community, to love they neighbor and look to be kind.

What is she who has not given of herself to what is unknown, as yet, born onto faiths pure possibility through creative practices that trace their roots to many different sources.

CREATING COMMUNITY CARE WITH OUR ANNUAL HEART ART CARD MITVAH PROJECT

We meet with folks at the senior living and drop off our hand made heart art cards, sharing and appreciating what comes through.

HEART ART CARD MITVAH PROJECT

Heart Art Card Mitvah Project

We meet in the days and months before Valentines Day to create the heart art cards. Once we have over 100 cards completed we align with a local neighborhood location who we feel could use the extra loving deliveries. On the Day, we start early in the morning and deliver these handmade heart cards around town, for us here in Los Angeles. Each year we've had a few other cities and states participate. The idea is to bring the full on loving to the world. 💌🐲💗✨

HEART ART CARD MITVAH PROJECT

The artists outdid themselves in the arting, this year.

THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW TO DO RIGHT

Perhaps you'll consider how you can be of service, maybe this little mitvah will inspire a work of connection and love in your neighborhood, perhaps you want to join with us. No matter and however, do what feels right for you, with the energy you have and allow kindness to grow throughout our neighborhoods. Folks need your love, not your fear. Folks need more joy and less stress. Each transformation begins with one action as a commitment of pure imagination. If you love to create, share and be a part of something supremely loving, join us for a bit of heart activism throughout the year or for our annual Heart Card Mitvah. If you want to join send a DM. If you know someone who would love to receive a handmade greeting via the wonderful USPS, please reach out.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are grateful for this tradition and the work and love that is exchanged every year in this beautiful love in all its forms. Sending so much love for a bright and beautiful new year.

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Melanie Lutz

All Systems Love

Writer/Producer/Love Activist

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START A NEXT100 DAYS OF LOVE 

HEART CARD LOVE PROJECT: CONNECTING COMMUNITIES THROUGH LOVE

Please join us as we come together to create hand-made greeting cards from the heart. Once a year in February we participate in a love and kindness builder that began in 2014. We make 100+ Heart cards to be delivered on Valentine’s Day to a senior center in our local community to remind people that they are never alone and they are always Loved. We literally pour our Hearts and Love into greeting cards which are then delivered to someone who feels alone… someone who needs a lift… a pick me up… a shot of Love.

Art from the heart creates connection and when done in community heals.

Each year we elevate our card making and process of connecting to the collective Heart. We think about loved ones and populations in need that we want to share love and kindness with and we infuse our loving intentions into the cards we create. When they receive the card it comes directly from the heart and it reminds that we are all connected. Each year has had a different theme, but is grounded in the idea of connection and community.

THE HEART IS FOR LOVE ACTIVISM

Every January - February we gather, create and work toward our Valentines Day deliveries. It's our 6th Valentine's year of creating and giving heart card love to promote foundational community health and wellness. The Heart Card Love Service project is part of Mel's Love Land's commitment to demonstrating love in action. It is one of many loving healing initiatives we encourage, participate in and offer throughout the year.

ONLINE TUESDAYS TILL VALENTINE'S DAY

We host a card making zoom sessions Tuesdays at 5:30pm starting in December through February 8th when we begin deliveries. These session connect artist studios, living rooms, kitchen tables, craft rooms and offices to create heart cards.

Spreading love is one way we feel connected to our community. It brings us nourishment and in giving love we feel loved. It is selfish as it is selfless.

It's a wonderful experience to reflect on what your loving gifts might bring forward into the world. This love in action event allows for a blank canvass for love to make connections, it is an opportunity to build art-full community care, and have fun creating handmade cards that will be shared on Valentine’s Day.

Every year a group of love activists come together to create heart art to give to seniors in our community to remind "you are loved."

Spreading Love. Mel's Love Land Heart Card Love Project. Artists come together to create cards and give love.

WE CREATE, DELIVER AND LISTEN IN

It began with a Mitvah. After the death of my father, we found a place for my Mom at a wonderful Senior living spot in Pasadena, California, the Regency Park Oak Knoll, a caring, loving place where we felt she was safe. That first year was rough and when Valentine's came up an idea of creating 100+ heart cards and sharing with the residents at her new home and meet up with our newest family members. We brought flowers from our local gardens and showed up with handmade cards and lots of love. We found the cards triggered memories of childhood and paths that lead them through their lives, to loved ones past and doors that opened, to the wonderful lives they had led and the ways we shared that love were profound. It was healing to all our hearts. It was her first Valentines without my Dad, her husband of 52 years and together with a lot of help from friends and their loving hearts, extra kindness, we all felt enriched and nourished. What we realized very quickly, my Mom wasn't the only one missing a partner, feeling a bit alone and our efforts were deeply received. Thankful for 52 Weeks of Giveback for their loving contributions.

Hannah Bella Lee delivers Heart Art Cards and spreads love to Seniors; Pictured here with my mom, Louise Lutz and her new Friends at the Regency Park Oak Knoll Pasadena.

We love our neighbors because we are our neighbors. Photos from our 2022 Mel's Love Land Action.

YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE HEART (NO MATTER WHAT)

Coming together to create art is part of the magic and miracles of collective healing, community care and mutual aid. We utilize our crafting heart cards to laugh, to share, to co-create in community and the outcome of delivering love to folks is always full of meaningful surprises. The personal connections made, the stories of loves past and ancestors remembered. The joy of sharing in a deep listening. We grow into knowing love is in need of love. We create a 100+ heart cards and deliver into our communities to spread love because it is the least we can do, and it is what we were called to do. You may be called to something else. The idea is to take the loving action you are here to do. We've found love brings more love and have heard from folks they've done similar offerings and awakened a sense of sharing the gifts they've been given. We love to think of it as an activation and a gentle deeply peaceful process of creating connection through the collective heart.

Heart Art Card Loving is Giving. Giving is Receiving

WE ARE MADE OF LOVE

Every year we are inspired by the talent, the commitment and the work folks put into creating the cards. Want to highlight a few artist friends who have made this all possible by giving of their time and coming together to make and deliver cards. An idea shared grows stronger. We believe in a critical mass of thought, we believe in the inner power of that 100th monkey, in making a commitment to showing up and to doing the necessary work to co-create foundational health and wellness. We believe in miracles. We believe sending love brings forward more love. The making, giving and delivering of the cards had an exponentially loving effect.

With infinite love and gratitude. May love and connection continue to grow.

LET THERE BE LOVE

Each year is different. We remain open to where the love is needed and have expanded to different community locations. A sober living space in our neighborhood, another senior home in Hollywood, a domestic violence support center, a tiny home village to support transitions, but what remains is our commitment to fierce, radical, authentic loving .

All Mel's Love Land efforts offer space for decolonizing, unlearning and opening the heart. Folks need space to unwind what has been wound up, to come to a different point of view and to allow for ways to let love to lead the way.

We love being able to support the post office through our purchases of stamps and every step we make to the post box is filled with joy, smiling at a neighbor, bending down to pet a dog or two and hugging the sun. So much love in action.

WHO ARE THE MEL ANGELS?

The world is full of loving folks who want to give off their time and talents to spread love. We invite folks to participate in a process.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ARTISTS THAT DONATE THEIR TALENTS

What can you say about the individuals who continue to share the gifts and their hearts over and over but I LOVE YOU. I love your heart. I love your passion and I love your work. Some of the first cars this year included the loving sentiment "It's Never too late to say 'I Love You.' This emerged from a beautuful soulful artist spending time in Mexico, Mary Elizabeth Holmes and brought their traditions and artistry to the table. We read from the traditions of El Dia del Amor y la Amistad the day of friendship and love as we worked through our art crafting sessions.

With so much loss, death, suffering and the constant throng of struggle there is beauty, there is grace and there is love. Never forget you are loved. Always consider the opportunity to say I love you and give yourself the gift of love in open hearted joy.

BEE LOVING LINDA

This work from Linda Gabriel comes with joyful bursts of graphic power and love from the heart. Stamps of the garden, the life force of the bees and the eyes of the heart.

Throughout the sessions we share intentions for our loving cards, talk about what we wish for those who receive the cards and the ways we can expand possibilities for our worlds with our loving. Some of the cards are created for folks who send us a request for a card, for a loved one, for someone they care about and know need support and others have no intended recipient, just a free flow from the heart, others inspired by the moment, the cut of a heart, a person pops in with a heart as a prompt to share, yet others a complete expression of the moment of presence with the supplies prompted by love.

G'S MONSTER LOVE

All the monster love cards come from big Hearted Artist: Gena Kay whose redressingtheglobe offers travel inspiration and sparkling charm from around the globe.

KINDNESS AND EMPATHY RAINBOW RAVEN AND HER DAUGHTER LULU

When the going gets rough the OG founders of our kindness and art heart cards deliver, documentarian Tamra Raven and her daughter, Louise 'LuLu' Steinberg know how to giveback, collectively operating 52 Weeks of Giveback, where kindness contributes to a world reborn. These beautiful artists represent a strong lineage of women committed to uplifting our worlds.

DELIVERING LOVE

There are two parts to delivering of the art heart cards, mailing and hand delivery, each has its own magic. We love the USPS. It is a rich part of our great United States, from the zip code system to the interconnected relationships between communities through our beloved mail carriers and the worlds they connect. One of the fun parts is getting the loving cards in the magical post box on the corner. You can request a card for yourself or a loved one on our site, click here.

Heart Art Card

Should you be inspired to send cards of gratitude and love and heart in your communities throughout the year you will need crafting and art supplies, card stock, different materials and 'stuff' to create hearts. Set aside time and allow for your gratitude to lead the way with any idea that moves your artistic soul. Once you have completed a few cards you'll experience the grace of sending, giving and receiving love, bringing alive the idea of being a bit more loving today than you were yesterday.

In honor of all of our loved ones and my Mom and Dad, never forget you are never alone, you are safe and you are always loved. Always consider the opportunity to say 'I love you' with a card made by you with love in open hearted joy.

This February Loving Service project is part of Mel's Love Land's commitment to love in action. It is one of many art healing initiatives we encourage and participate in. It is one of the featured elements of Mel's Love Land, an original Documentary Series that asks the question WHAT IF All Our Thoughts Were Loving?

We hope you experience more love, more joy and all the ways we are interconnected in the space of the heart.

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Melanie Lutz – Mel's Love Land

All Systems Love

Writer/Producer/Love Activist

LOOK FOR:

Original Documentary Series:

MELS LOVE LAND:

WHAT IF

All Our Thoughts

Were Loving?

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IG: @MelsLoveLand

Website: https://www.melsloveland.com

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/melsloveland