[python] a somewhat strange request from listers
- From: "Mark Garvey" <lazybee45@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:32:35 -0600
hi, you guys know me ...well, sort of....And I want to pick your brains....I
am writing a story for my grand daughter. MAYBE it will find itself in a
publishing house, but that is NOT the intention so much as a fun story for
her.
the premise is THIS
A man and his daughter are riding their bicycle by a stream near their home
when the girl asks "where does the stream go?" In the case of the small
creek that runs near our house, it runs to a river, then to a bigger river,
thence to the Mississippi and out into the gulf of Mexico. (eventually,
about 1000 miles away!) In the story, the girl wants to put a note in a
bottle and throw it into the river to see where it goes and she begins to
get notes back from places where the bottle washes up. OK, it is sort of
fanciful, but it COULD happen. Since the Gulf connects to the Atlantic, and
eventually it could go anywhere in the world!
what I would like is to see if you guys would take a minute or two and
consider what you would write to a small girl (who during the story grows up
and eventually has a small girl of her own) If you were on a beach and
found a bottle that said, "PLease send me a note telling where you found
this bottle, and please put the bottle BACK into the water so that it can
keep traveling!"
how would you react? what would you tell her about you, and your country? I
have LIMITED imagination and will be in all likelyhood asking others to help
too. But this project started to FASCINATE me. I am hoping to draw some
pictures to go with it eventually. this can be a long undertaking, but I
hae a 3 year old Grand daughter, her 5 month old sister, and will soon be
"grampa" to another 3 year old when my middle daughter marries her man
friend later this year.
So call me crazy, but I love kids and like to tell them stories! And I also
like to involve the "interconnectedness of all things" as well!
thanks. If you can do it, GREAT! if not, hey, this is a REQUEST, not a
demand!
--
Mark (Mr. WizWheelz!) Garvey
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (free state!)
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