Fire: An Open Letter To My Four Little Nephews
My dear little nephews, I write to you today not because I expect you to read or appreciate this letter right away. Consider this as my message in a bottle for the four of you. You will find this message when you already learned how to read, of course, and when you can already truly understand the meaning of each line. In fact, you will read this again and again at different points in your life, and you will find new meaning each time. And I will be hopeful again and again that each time you take this message out of the bottle, you will find something refreshing like a sweet new discovery. I am writing this letter today while I am still enamored with you, sweet boys. I doubt if I can write something like this when you are already in your awkward teens and I appear to be grumpy and preachy to you four. Also, I doubly doubt if this bugging thought these days will ever hover again: When shall an aunt gift her nephews with some words of wisdom? Now that one of you turned s...