Thank you, Jon, and as always I enjoy your feedback. It is interesting how you perceived part of his letter as mansplaining which I didn’t at all. I suppose everyone writes and perceives very differently, which I find wonderful and it keeps us on our toes
What a wonderful post Tanja. Gerald Durrell (and in fact the whole Durrell family) is so interesting. I wonder how you came across this beautiful letter to Lee McGeorge? I imagine that even if one had the writing skills of Durrell, have sufficient reflective time to sit down and write today, seems unlikely. Electronic messages will never have the same power as the written word. Increasingly though, young ones seem to have lost any written skills but they are very good with keyboards. Your post is an encouragement not to lose the old arts and to take time to write words of love and affirmation.
Your post reminded me that there was an interesting series called The Durrells - I haven't seen it but I think it was on Netflix. Here is a link about it in case you haven't seen it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5014882/
I am glad you enjoyed the post, Reuben. It’s funny how differently it was received. I thank you for the link and I will look into the Durrell family as apart from this amazing letter I know little to nothing about.
And I stumbled across the letter online where Tom Hiddleston was reading it - beautifully if I may say…
even the ones that yielded rejections triggered tactful/polite or even helpful/supportive responses.
of course, I'm a bit picky about who gets that sort of literature, trying to make sure they're not the type who's going to be outright offended, or perhaps I'd have gotten worse results
Brilliant stuff, though I'd like to humbly point out a couple of mistakes:
1. He appeats to want to mansplain things to her, which is no longer acceptable.
2. He also appears to be practicing for another book about animals at one stage, though maybe that's ok for Gerald Durrell.
Otherwise a great effort!
Thank you, Jon, and as always I enjoy your feedback. It is interesting how you perceived part of his letter as mansplaining which I didn’t at all. I suppose everyone writes and perceives very differently, which I find wonderful and it keeps us on our toes
I was being a little bit facetious, really - he writes very well of course.
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What a wonderful post Tanja. Gerald Durrell (and in fact the whole Durrell family) is so interesting. I wonder how you came across this beautiful letter to Lee McGeorge? I imagine that even if one had the writing skills of Durrell, have sufficient reflective time to sit down and write today, seems unlikely. Electronic messages will never have the same power as the written word. Increasingly though, young ones seem to have lost any written skills but they are very good with keyboards. Your post is an encouragement not to lose the old arts and to take time to write words of love and affirmation.
Your post reminded me that there was an interesting series called The Durrells - I haven't seen it but I think it was on Netflix. Here is a link about it in case you haven't seen it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5014882/
I am glad you enjoyed the post, Reuben. It’s funny how differently it was received. I thank you for the link and I will look into the Durrell family as apart from this amazing letter I know little to nothing about.
And I stumbled across the letter online where Tom Hiddleston was reading it - beautifully if I may say…
I've always felt a bit tacky (and trepidated) about sending love letters, but they usually seem go over better on the receiving end than I'd expect
Thank you so much for sharing this. I do believe that most women would receive a love letter, even a short one very well when it comes from the heart.
even the ones that yielded rejections triggered tactful/polite or even helpful/supportive responses.
of course, I'm a bit picky about who gets that sort of literature, trying to make sure they're not the type who's going to be outright offended, or perhaps I'd have gotten worse results
It’s never easy to put yourself and your feelings out there. It takes a good portion of courage 👏🏼