Assuming that the world doesn’t end in 2012 (would it be so bad?) what would you say to your great-Grandchildren if you had the chance?
This is an open invitation to write your Love Letters to the Future:
The Top 100 will be selected and on December 13th, 2009, they will be locked in a time capsule and stored in Copenhagen, Denmark, to be opened again exactly 100 years from now. Doesn't that give you the warm fuzzies?
You may already have a few things cooking in the back of your mind that you’d like to communicate to the leaders of tomorrow… Maybe you’d like to drop a comment about the state of war, politics, famine, the economy, agriculture, Michael Jackson, or the Balloon Boy.
But sorry, the general marketing ploy behind this idea is of course, our favourite issue, climate change.
Therefore, Love Letters referring to this phenomenon are probably more likely to be accepted into the prestigious Top 100 (especially if your message fits whatever tone they are trying to set. Everything is so rigidly controlled these days…sigh).
Personally, I would be wary of the potential for embarrassment…
The intense drama surrounding Climate Change (which to be specific, is usually associated with Global Warming) interests me, because from what I can gather/Google there is also copious amounts of converse information that presents evidence for Global Cooling - so much so, you may read about it at
climatecooling.org, the companion site to
climatechangefacts.info.
I wonder, if we preserve a bunch of heartfelt rambling about climate change for our intellectually evolved, space-suit wearing spawn in the year 2109, would we come off as a bunch of dorky cavemen, obsessed over some scientific “world is flat” type beliefs that were disproved yonks ago? Will they point and laugh, and shake their heads and say "Those silly sausages!" Looking back is not necessarily a good thing. Think of the 1980’s - they were only a
quarter of a decade ago, yet we’re all sufficiently embarrassed by those years… Imagine if we had of made a
"Gay Plague" video for future generations about AIDS in the 1980s ... and speaking on the 80's ... if you do leave a message, maybe send a text instead of a video... We don’t know what the fashion will be like in 100 years, and you don’t want your Great Grandchildren to think you looked like a dork.
It’s always easy to look back in retrospect and judge or criticize, but maybe, today, we do not see or understand that popularly held convictions and beliefs could be wrong.
“Future generations will be living with the consequences of whatever action we take - or do not take - on climate change, would you send them messages of hope and inspiration - or regret?”
Personally, I would keep my mouth shut. I like to hope that I could learn a lot more from my Great Grandkids, than they could ever learn from me.
"Your children are not your children.... They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you... And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts... For they have their own thoughts.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.... For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You may house their bodies but not their souls... For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit... not even in your dreams."
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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Dallas-I completed 26 hats
Dallas-I completed 26 hats and 3 throws and sent them to Jesse Greenspan with a note seeking information if they need me or others to continue knitting warm benie caps and if she is interested in me knitting and sending knitted baby throws.
But I've not heard back from Jesse on my inquiry. So need your help to get a response. Thanks Lynn in Idaho.
Hi Lynn, thanks for writing
Hi Lynn, thanks for writing but especially, thanks for knitting all those things for the babies! I will see if I can find out for you, and will let you know what I hear back.
Cheers, Dallas.
Sent baby benies-26 ea and 3
Sent baby benies-26 ea and 3 ea warm knitted baby throws and sent them to Jesse Greenspan, Partners In Health. My question is do you need me and others to keep on knitting baby benies. And I can continue to knit warm baby throws too if needed and desired.
So have some one contact me if there is additional need and I'l continue to knit.
Best Regards!! Lynn
Hi Lynn, I actually just
Hi Lynn, I actually just visited the Hot Heads Blog Spot ... http://hotheadknitters.blogspot.com/
And there is a comment on the site saying:
Hi everyone!
PIH's offices have moved. Please send any beanies, etc from now on to:
Jesse Greenspan - HotHeads
Partners in Health
888 Commonwealth Ave., 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02215
Thank you to everyone for your contributions, ideas, and questions!
(Obviously whenever addresses change, there is usually a forwarding system in place to ensure that mail gets to the new address, but if you did continue to send things, this seems to be the new place...)
Thanks Dallas!! I sent them
Thanks Dallas!! I sent them about a month ago to address you sent me from the blog spot. Best Regards! Lynn
No problem! And as the Blog
No problem! And as the Blog Spot is still up and running, I assume they are still accepting donations for the babies...
Anyway, I noticed you said you were from Idaho, so I wish you an (early) Happy Thanksgiving!
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