{The following are two notes sent to the author's father}
Hi Fred...
I just read the story. Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I
thought it was a wonderful story.
You must be very proud of your son. He has a rare gift for putting issues
of the heart on paper. I don't just mean the things that are apparent...but
reaching deep inside to the motivations and fears that make us who we are.
Breaking stereotypes...tough job...and he did it well. It is perhaps almost
too subtle...and yet, we all play out those same roles, if we are honest.
My reaction is that he reached through the walls and touched the person
inside...he made a valient and successful endeavor to get people to look in
a mirror, apply some radical honesty, and find out that we all stand on
common ground whether we want to admit it or not. He told a tale with a
moral: once we move beyond our perceptions and our judgements, we share the
same hopes, dreams, fears. (I am minded of a line from Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice..."If you prick us, doth we not bleed? If you tickle us,
doth we not laugh? If you poison us, doth we not die? And if you wrong us,
shall we not revenge?"
We all bear our scars and carry our banners and wear our masks. I am
privileged to have a friend like you with a son like him who reads and
writes what is graven on our hearts. I will say only this much more...in my
dreams, none of us have to fit an image imposed on us willingly or
unwillingly. In my dreams we simply cherish the humanity in each of us.
What a wonderful world
I dream.
Thank you again for sharing this.
Cat
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Subject: Re: Evaluation
Morning Fred!! What a wonderful story!! It was a little confusing at times, but it made me stop and reread the sentences as I went... Can I ask who his target audience was? (Just curious...) But he did a fantastic job!! Thanks for sharing that!
Alegria!
PATS Geek
Lamanda Gaskins
Hi Fred...
I just read the story. Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I
thought it was a wonderful story.
You must be very proud of your son. He has a rare gift for putting issues
of the heart on paper. I don't just mean the things that are apparent...but
reaching deep inside to the motivations and fears that make us who we are.
Breaking stereotypes...tough job...and he did it well. It is perhaps almost
too subtle...and yet, we all play out those same roles, if we are honest.
My reaction is that he reached through the walls and touched the person
inside...he made a valient and successful endeavor to get people to look in
a mirror, apply some radical honesty, and find out that we all stand on
common ground whether we want to admit it or not. He told a tale with a
moral: once we move beyond our perceptions and our judgements, we share the
same hopes, dreams, fears. (I am minded of a line from Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice..."If you prick us, doth we not bleed? If you tickle us,
doth we not laugh? If you poison us, doth we not die? And if you wrong us,
shall we not revenge?"
We all bear our scars and carry our banners and wear our masks. I am
privileged to have a friend like you with a son like him who reads and
writes what is graven on our hearts. I will say only this much more...in my
dreams, none of us have to fit an image imposed on us willingly or
unwillingly. In my dreams we simply cherish the humanity in each of us.
What a wonderful world
I dream.
Thank you again for sharing this.
Cat
~~~~~~~
Subject: Re: Evaluation
Morning Fred!! What a wonderful story!! It was a little confusing at times, but it made me stop and reread the sentences as I went... Can I ask who his target audience was? (Just curious...) But he did a fantastic job!! Thanks for sharing that!
Alegria!
PATS Geek
Lamanda Gaskins
