Category: Letters to My Son
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Letters to My Son: The Islands In Your Mind
My dearest boy, The other day we were building a village in the living room with magnet tiles, and wooden blocks, and boxes. The village was for your toy insects, and the stray elk and tiger, but mostly beetles and millipedes, grasshoppers and praying mantises. I was amazed at your imagination. What I saw as…
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Letters to My Son: If Only I Could Bubble Wrap the World
My dear boy, I still remember when you were first born and I would give you a bath in the little sink bathtub that we had. And I would wash your hair, and I’d always panic when my fingers would accidentally touch your soft spot. If ever I would feel it, I would stop, look…
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Letters to My Son on Life and Faith: Introduction
When we were still anticipating my son, I began writing letters to him. I wrote about the progress we were making on his nursery, how excited we were for his arrival, the hopes that we had with him. And then during his first year, I wrote him a letter once a month. My plan was…
Matthew van Maastricht 