<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">Dear
friends and colleagues:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">First, my
apologies for any cross-postings.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">Roughly
once a month I give exhibitions of my Endangered Alphabets carvings and speak
about what we can learn from these fascinating and beautiful scripts, and why
it’s vital, especially right now, to help indigenous and minority cultures
revive their languages. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">Right
now I’m booking the second half of 2019 and the first half of 2020. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">The Alphabets have been shown and discussed in more than 100 venues in half-a-dozen countries, including Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, First Nations University, and the Smithsonian Institution.</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">If
you’re interested in hosting the Alphabets and me, and becoming a partner in
this vital endeavor, please check out </span><a href="https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/visits/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/visits/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">. Or if you think you know someone else
who might be interested, by all means respond to this message to let me know.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">Thanks!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">Tm Brookes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">The Endangered Alphabets Project</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">P.S. If
you haven’t yet checked out our newly-launched Atlas of Endangered Alphabets at
</span><a href="http://www.endangeredalphabets.net" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">www.endangeredalphabets.net</span></a><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif">, please do so! And if you have
comments or suggestions in response, don’t hesitate to let me know!</span></p></div>