Hello, Dear Ann! My workload the past couple weeks has left me with a wonderful line-up of Sunny Optimists to read! This was so much fun. Hearing you sing...I see why you are called StarSong. You have a lovely voice, indeed! I am so lucky to have had a grandmother who loved to write (and who also was in a touring band during America's Great Depression). She left us all the stories her father told her when she was a little girl. Such a treasure. She also wrote about growing up in a house that was part of the underground railroad. The family in the home before her time sheltered runaway slaves from the South. I'm so glad these stories won't be lost. You've inspired me to start a book of my own...another volume in our big library of life. Huge hugs to you today!!
Hello Ann. It’s impossible to know how vast those libraries are and when anyone passes away scores and scores of beautiful books are lost forever. One can only do their best and try to transcribe as much of ones inner thoughts on to paper for future generations. Out of the thousands of incredible books that must be in my parents’ thought- libraries I cherish the belief that I inherit a few. Both in my own imaginative ability and also quite literally in the cds of their voices they have recently recorded for me. My father reciting his favourite poetry. This will be beautiful forever. For my niece and nephew to remember. My parents are in their eighties now... what they have given me Is the perpetual longing to discover the unknown books. Find the lost and unwritten books. Sometimes from the depths of our own consciousnesses. There must be thousands. And perhaps even a few pages. Lovely illustrated drawings and prose always so near the surface to be captured hopefully forever on paper. Let’s try all of us to rescue those lost books of the imagination and make the thoughts stories and adventures available to future readers die as long as possible
Inspired by this, I have looked out my 30th Birthday Book that you made for me - looking forward to going through the pictures and memories from all my loved ones, captured forever in one place. Realise it'll be the first time I have gone through it since Grandad left us, and I'm so grateful that you managed to preserve his 'voice' for me xxx
Hello, Dear Ann! My workload the past couple weeks has left me with a wonderful line-up of Sunny Optimists to read! This was so much fun. Hearing you sing...I see why you are called StarSong. You have a lovely voice, indeed! I am so lucky to have had a grandmother who loved to write (and who also was in a touring band during America's Great Depression). She left us all the stories her father told her when she was a little girl. Such a treasure. She also wrote about growing up in a house that was part of the underground railroad. The family in the home before her time sheltered runaway slaves from the South. I'm so glad these stories won't be lost. You've inspired me to start a book of my own...another volume in our big library of life. Huge hugs to you today!!
Sorry for typo at end of my comment just now!
Hello Ann. It’s impossible to know how vast those libraries are and when anyone passes away scores and scores of beautiful books are lost forever. One can only do their best and try to transcribe as much of ones inner thoughts on to paper for future generations. Out of the thousands of incredible books that must be in my parents’ thought- libraries I cherish the belief that I inherit a few. Both in my own imaginative ability and also quite literally in the cds of their voices they have recently recorded for me. My father reciting his favourite poetry. This will be beautiful forever. For my niece and nephew to remember. My parents are in their eighties now... what they have given me Is the perpetual longing to discover the unknown books. Find the lost and unwritten books. Sometimes from the depths of our own consciousnesses. There must be thousands. And perhaps even a few pages. Lovely illustrated drawings and prose always so near the surface to be captured hopefully forever on paper. Let’s try all of us to rescue those lost books of the imagination and make the thoughts stories and adventures available to future readers die as long as possible
Sending kindest best wishes
Richard 😀
Inspired by this, I have looked out my 30th Birthday Book that you made for me - looking forward to going through the pictures and memories from all my loved ones, captured forever in one place. Realise it'll be the first time I have gone through it since Grandad left us, and I'm so grateful that you managed to preserve his 'voice' for me xxx