Dear Freedom of Speech:

I love and miss you more than you know right now.

Wish you were here,

xoxo Me.




I'm in China right now, and am being kept super-busy with chiropractor therapy and mandatory family fun time. On top of that, however, I've been using my limited Internet time to find that the national firewall has blocked off a lot of my favorite sites. The official word is that the firewall protects Chinese citizens from "political threats" but I'm going to need some explaining to understand how high fashion and safe sex are going to take down the Chinese Communist Party. As far as I can tell, the only consequence of blocking these websites from an entire nation is limiting sources of knowledge and outlets for creativity.

Livejournal in particular is a fabulous outlet for my thoughts, but I have another two and a half weeks before I can use it. As a result, I'm feeling really blocked up and I haven't posted here in too long.

Maybe I'll do a series on all the ways China is really funny. Or Chinese people.

Maybe I'll stay in Hong Kong, where the firewall doesn't exist.

Dear the lovely person who wishes the people in his/her life would understand this -

It's okay. YOU understand. That is enough.

Now get on that saddle of yours and start making beautiful things happen with your life, regardless of how that will happen. Because it was your plan all along.

Love,

You.

Dear you,

I love it when you find a happy perspective for every situation. Whether that means loving the new priorities you've obtained from being ill, or finally understanding that things are not as bad as they seem.

I love that.

Most of all, I love you.

Signing off...

You

Dear you,

You! You who has been noticing all these wonderful strangers giving you warm smiles recently! You who has been wondering, "Why should these people be so wonderful only in December? What's wrong with being this wonderful ALL YEAR ROUND?"

You know you're the most loveable for these thoughts. And you know what? Why don't YOU try being the person who's at their best and sweetest and kindest all year round? What, you don't think people will notice? Well... let's just say that when this time of year rolls around again, and you've met new people who are also just starting to wonder at all the beautiful strangers being wonderful to them, these new people will stop and remember YOU. They'll ask themselves, "But person Y was always this wonderful, no matter what the time of year! Even when we'd only just met. Gee. I guess this person Y is even more wonderful than noticing all these beautiful strangers passing on their seasonal gratitude."

...And who knows what magical things will follow THAT train of thought?



Keep singing in the streets with your eyes and your heart,

You.

Dear YOU:

Don't you love it when you learn something amazingly groundbreaking about yourself and everyone around you instantly knows?

Heck, those who don't know you as well may even stop to ask if you've done something new to your hair!

But you know it's something much better...

Love,

me/yourself/the bus driver who smiled at you this morning/the pigeon who ate your muffin crumbs