An Open Letter To My Children… I’m Dead - jim Young, “To begin with, Marley was dead… dead as a door nail.” - Charles Dickens It’s been almost 10 years since my sister and I were charged with settling our parents’ estate. Some of the challenges are still fresh in my mind. And just as I wanted to avoid the mistakes my parents made in raising me when I became a parent, so too do I want to avoid the mistakes my parents made with the instructions they left me when they left this world as I prepare now to follow them. My children deserve new and better mistakes on my part and damn it - that’s what they’ll get! So the following is an open letter to my children in the hopes it will make the challenges they will one day face a little easier. If you’re reading this, I’m dead. Well not necessarily “this” . If you’re reading “this” it just means you’re reading something I’ve published online or in the Great North Arrow or something like that. So thanks for following me and reading my stuff. I’...
Hey Jim -- I just wanted to say that I enjoy your columns in Great North Arrow and I applaud you for supporting this ground-breaking publication. I, too, submit a column in Great North Arrow, and am proud that I too, support Cyndi and James. I live in Newmarket, but spent my summers at a cottage in Sundridge, so I know the area well and I plan on visiting the new Burk's Falls Welcome Centre this summer, maybe do a book reading from one of my three books! Any ways, Jim, keep on writing -- always an unique viewpoint from you!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your comments. Be sure to let me know when you schedule your book reading and we will try to attend. When the pandemic is over, I was thinking we should try to get Jim & Cyndi to organize some kind of a gathering or barbecue for all those that contribute to the Great North Arrow to get to know each other. Do you have a website you would like to promote? If so I would be happy to link it with some of the other sites I have listed under "Check These Sites Out Too!"
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