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Submitted by stefan on Wed, 23/04/2008 - 6:20pm
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It's great to get an overview of ideas for the first birthday - as the one for my son is approaching as well. It seems just impossible that I've been a dad now for nearly a year. You look from one day to the next - managing all the small and big crises and before you know it ... a year has passed. *sigh* Anyway - here it goes:
Spike's first birthday will be here soon. All fretting aside about WHERE THE HELL THE PAST 10 MONTHS WENT, I would like to enlist your help in putting together THE GREATEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT OF ALL TIME. No, it's not a pony. So I know this is waaaaay presumptuous of me, but at least I'm not asking for cash. No, what I want is blood. Your blood. And sweat. And tears. And maybe a little bile, just for kicks. Here's the deal: I would like to give Spike a book of letters from people all over this country and all over this world — from people who know her and from people who don't. I think we'll call it, "Dear Spike: Letters From Your Village." Catchy, no? Here's how it works: 1) You write a letter to Spike. Appropriately, it will start "Dear Spike:" and end with "Love,(yourname)" So, OK, I know that right at this very moment, there is someone from Nottingham, England, who is saying: "Surely, this chap doesn't expect me to contribute to this bloody project." Oh yes, I do. And I'm hoping — really, really hoping — that Spike also will receive letters from Omaha and Dublin, from Perth and Nashville, from Vancouver and Baden-Wurttemberg and Tampa and Lexington and Raleigh and Nasiriyah all the other places from which people have stumbled upon this blog and then, FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, thought it would be fun to come back again and again. And if you know people in Bejing or Mexico City or Mumbai or Capetown or Toledo (Ohio or Spain, either way) or anywhere else on the globe and you think they'd enjoy participating in this little birthday experiment, would you invite them along? OK, now I'm all giddy. This is so crazy, it might just work. Love, Posted by Stef
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