I'm Brian Easterling, creator of Love Letters to Forgotten Things and developer of the Love Letters Method.

For much of my life, I thought I understood death.

After losing a close friend at seventeen, mortality became a subject I couldn't stop thinking about. Years later, as Library Director at the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, I worked around death professionally, assisting with research, educational media, and subjects most people understandably spend their lives avoiding.

I thought all of that had prepared me.

Then I lost my parents.

I knew more about death than most people ever need to know. It turned out I knew almost nothing about losing someone I loved.

In the years that followed, I found myself returning to ordinary memories: objects, places, sounds, rituals and seemingly insignificant moments that had quietly helped make me who I was.

Those memories became Love Letters to Forgotten Things and eventually the
Love Letters Method, a practice of deliberate remembering designed to open doors into memory, storytelling, connection and wonder.

Because ordinary memories are one of the ways we understand who we were, who we loved, and what mattered.