Another Letter to Virginia
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:58 am
Hi Everyone
It's been a pretty rough year in many ways and there are still a host of major issues causing serious concern, so I thought it might be helpful to try to write something positive as we move into 2013. Way back in 1897 an eight-year-old girl, Virginia O'Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of a New York newspaper seeking reassurance that Santa Claus actually existed. The reply written by the editor (Francis P. Church), with its philosophical underpinnings, is very well known even today. So I took that idea and recast it as an editor responding to a teenage girl who, given all the terrible things happening around the world, was questioning whether there was any hope for the future. The result is published in today's Saturday Age.
Here's the link: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/societ ... 2bz8w.html
It's not poetry, but I hope there are some poetic (and meaningful) elements to it!
Cheers (and happy New Year to all)
David
It's been a pretty rough year in many ways and there are still a host of major issues causing serious concern, so I thought it might be helpful to try to write something positive as we move into 2013. Way back in 1897 an eight-year-old girl, Virginia O'Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of a New York newspaper seeking reassurance that Santa Claus actually existed. The reply written by the editor (Francis P. Church), with its philosophical underpinnings, is very well known even today. So I took that idea and recast it as an editor responding to a teenage girl who, given all the terrible things happening around the world, was questioning whether there was any hope for the future. The result is published in today's Saturday Age.
Here's the link: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/societ ... 2bz8w.html
It's not poetry, but I hope there are some poetic (and meaningful) elements to it!
Cheers (and happy New Year to all)
David
