Dear Anonymous Letter Writer:<\/p>\n
I received your anonymous letter in the mail yesterday afternoon and read it immediately in my Beaverwood Writing Studio while drinking mint tea. At the time your letter arrived, I was working on a long, strange essay about my youth in Oregon City that I am writing for no discernible reason except that I can\u2019t seem to stop. Perhaps I am onto something important. It feels that way.<\/p>\n
Actually, I read your letter three times because it was extraordinary. Your wise and uplifting words found me at precisely the right time I needed to read them. I can hardly believe that is a coincidence. I can hardy believe you discovered the new blog, let alone that mentioned taking a recommendation from the site and are enjoying Jim Harrison\u2019s Dalva<\/em>. This reminds me yet again how cosmic this novel is in my life and charts a path where I want to return in my life.<\/p>\n Thank you for the time and palpable care you expended on my behalf. You made me think about where I am going these days and almost brought me to tears when you wrote, \u201cThank you for being a teacher even now.\u201d Reading that sentence instantly brought to mind this electric idea: perhaps I am engaged in the greatest teaching gig of my life and didn\u2019t even realize. But what am I teaching? Who am I teaching (besides myself)? These are questions rich in possibilities for me to answer.<\/p>\n I would like to correspond with you in the old-fashioned manner you shrewdly employed to reach out to me. Would that be okay? I need an address and a name would nice as well. You can also reach me through the web site to move things along quicker, but sometimes slow is better.<\/p>\n Thank you again. It truly was incredible to realize that receiving a letter from a total stranger could produce such keen insights and warm feelings within me. I sincerely hope I get to read more of your words to me.<\/p>\n Matt Love<\/p>\n PS: I have another book recommendation for you. Peter Matthiessen\u2019s The Snow Leopard<\/em>, about his Zen-infused trek to the Himalayans to spot an elusive creature. I am rereading this book for the fifth time right now and it has taken all new meaning. It\u2019s providing the clarity I need.<\/p>\n\n Dear Anonymous Letter Writer: I received your anonymous letter in the mail yesterday afternoon and read it immediately in my Beaverwood Writing Studio while drinking mint tea. At the time your letter arrived, I was working on a long, strange essay about my youth in Oregon City that I am writing for no discernible reason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,98,6,7],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-jim-harrision","tag-letter-writing","tag-matt-love","tag-writing","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}