It’s our 10th anniversary! Today! We’re celebrating all week with postcards we wrote to our 10-years-younger selves. Today Jane, Heather, Jessa, and Ginny hint at good things to come.
Jane C. Hu
Dear 2010 Jane,
Welcome to the west coast. You, an indoor cat, have come here purportedly to study cognition, but your time will become a study of many things: the cold sea, warm springs, pale blue eggs and driftwood, how good french fries taste after a few days in the woods. These are the studies you will remember, not the hours at your computer or the esoteric lab meeting debates.
<3 2020 Jane
P.S. In 3 months, go to the Berkeley shelter and get a dog. Trust me.Addressed to: 2010 Jane
That terrible apartment you paid $1100/mo for which now costs $2500 because of Facebook and Tesla
Read the rest of Jane’s LWON posts. She just recently joined us (we’re so happy!) so you can get through all of them right now, no problem.
Heather Pringle
Gillie with an !
Sixty-six pounds of pure joy, wrapped in toffee-colored fur, ears soft as
silk. You haven’t met Gillie yet, but you will, you will. She will be the
nose beside your nose when your eyes open each morning, and the snoring you hear as you drift off to sleep each night. Everything she does, she does with gusto-jackrabbiting down stairs, cavorting across the floor, pounding her kibble-bowl. The thing she loves most in the world is her old orange Whistler. Nothing beats it as it flies over her head in the summer grass and she stretches out to catch it.Cheers
H
Heather Pringle is one of LWON’s beloved founders; she left the blog a while back, but you can still read the posts she wrote for LWON, like the one about a footprint — no person, just a footprint.
Jessa Gamble
Dear Jessa (2010)
I write to you from an expanded world, from a different paradigm.If the next 10 years hold the same degree of expansion in all aspects of my life as the last 10 years, I will be writing to my current self from somewhere in space in 2030.
Enjoy the ride.
Jessa (2020)
Jessa isn’t around so much these days, but you can still read her LWON posts. The one about the now-invisible Dorset seems appropriate.
Virginia Hughes
Dear 2010 Ginny,
2020 Ginny here. I’m OK. Dealing with chapped hands and a smidge of restlessness, but no need to bore you with that. Three tips:
1. Pitch more. (Have you talked to many virologists lately? Fascinating stuff!)
2. Call your parents more.
3. You tend to run from big life decisions. Stop that. You are capable of work that seems too hard, and worthy of love that feels too big.Feel free to share this with your 2000 self — though I’m sure she’d never listen. :eyeroll:
You can still read all of Ginny’s LWON posts (from before she left us, sigh). This one is part of her continuing interest in the Faustian bargains of genetic testing.