Today I ran across a blog posting on Flavorwire. It was a collection of Brilliant and Inspiring Letters From Famous Authors to Their Young Fans (by Emily Temple. Posted on 2:00 pm Saturday Jun 23, 2012)
The following is my favorite and what I find to represent much
of what life is really about.
Detachment. Joy. Love. And
living in the moment. Enjoy!
Though
we’ll never see this drawing and note from Maurice Sendak to a young fan, it
must have been especially good:
“Once a
little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I
answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I
lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I
wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother
and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of
the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an
original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate
it.”
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