Saturday, January 26, 2019

Because everything old eventually becomes new again


Tina set up an account so I could email my fairy godchild letters to her future self.

I claimed I forgot.

But I'm telling you here now is my confession.

WTF?  I mean, to which age future Harper am I writing?  Am I allowed to use curse words?  (To which, I know you will say - if you think it is appropriate for you to use that type of language with your fairy godchild then by all means...")  Are we having fake fairy tale versions of our lives?  Is it a big adventure?

I'm not sure what the content of these emails is supposed to be.  Is it my perspective on our life journey together?  I mean, listen, I am barely hacking it "adulting" and I'm in my 40's.  SO, I think I'm not going to be in much of a position to dispense pearls of wisdom, if you know what I mean.  But, that also depends on whether your idea of successful adulting is being good at the clerical and administrative details of life.  I mean, not that those things aren't important, but being good at those things doesn't necessarily equate to being able to have lasting, meaningful relationships with other human beings who live outside of your phone.  I'm just saying.

So, Dear Harper, I do not write Dear Harper emails because I'm not sure what the scenario is that you will be reading them.  We need ground rules. Taboo topics.  Will there be a day that she will get to read them and respond or is this some maudlin to be read after I've kicked it?  Because, tbh, I super suck at checking my email.   So, if there's going to be a point at which she would be reading and responding, then I'll need to know to go check.  But, if it is a post mortem thing, then doesn't matter.
Let's say that we pick an age that she is going to be when the emails will be unearthed and at that point - we begin.

I suppose I could craft the emails in here and then have you approve them?  Somewhat public but not because who is going to read our blog but us? 

Anyways.  Love that we're talking about taking a road trip with Harper.  I'm really keen to do a King's Dominion thing, but she may be a bit too young for many of the rides.  Plus, it is really heavy on the Peanuts theme still and I'm wondering if they know that the Peanuts are not really big part of pop culture anymore? 

Okay, rambling out...

HPL