Handcrafted Thoughts from Puerto Rico

Yesenia’s handwritten wonderfulness from Puerto Rico came in a fantastic envelope.

It was complete with this lovely quote stamped on the inside.

Yesenia responded to the following Question of the Week: If you could receive a handwritten letter from anyone throughout history, who would it be?  Why, and what do you think they would tell you?  What would their letter be like?

May 17, 2012

I would’ve loved to receive a letter from an unknown ancestor of mine.  Someone that did not know of my being, but that thought of me decades before my existence and that decided to leave a letter for me, knowing that someday I would read it.  I imagine that it could be from a great grandmother that lived at the beginning of the past century.  I think that her letter would include words of love and encouragement to live a life well lived and to enjoy the opportunities that destiny brings to me; to be enthusiastic about life and the future that awaits.

I imagine that her letter would include words of wisdom that tell the tales of the struggles of life, that a girl of her time would encounter and that she supposes, I would go through too.  Her letter would store some anecdotes worth saving for over a hundred years in a drawer, where she talks about people I would never meet, customs I would never understand and a time I would never know.  Dreams, ideas and secrets would be addressed to me, just for her desire to create a deeper connection with a girl that would “hopefully” understand her and make her live forever through “time-capsuled” handwritten words.  Always meant for an unknown yet familiar girl, living in an unrecognizable and uncertain future.

How did I analyze and think about my answer, the truth is that THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO for a future, yet unknowingly existent great great granddaughter of mine or a relative that I won’t have the opportunity to meet, but that I know will live someday.  I’ve always wanted to do it and I hope I will!!

I guess it sounds weird and maybe a little conceited, but I would just like to let her know that I existed.  I would like her to know, that somebody had the hope that she came into this world and that somebody thought of her before anybody else did.

I think it would be great to find words of wisdom left just for you, kept for years hidden or stored God knows where, just waiting for you; no matter how random they might be, in the end they might take a meaning of their own.

The first time I read Yesenia’s response, I just about melted.  What a romantically beautiful idea.  A handwritten note, all folded up, waiting to touch the heart of a future dreamer.  I receive letters from truly sensational minds.

Thank you so, so much, Yesenia, for such a thoughtful response that tickled my own dreaming heart.

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