A Letter From Your 14-Year-Old Self

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January 1, 2015 a project of ServiceSpace It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive - Joan Didion - A Letter From Your 14-Year-Old Self When was the last time you received a hand-written letter? For students of Mr. Farrer, it was a letter that they had written to their future selves 20 years ago, full of their young hopes and dreams as well as memories of people who have since passed away. Bruce Farrer started the assignment when he first started teaching at Bert Fox Community High School in the small Canadian town of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, in 1961: 10 hand-written pages that he would mail back to the students in 20 years. Watch the reactions of some of the students Farrer has been able to track down, year after year, for over 30 years. { read more } Be The Change On this first day of the New Year, handwrite a letter to a loved one (perhaps to yourself) to be opened at a later date. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language On Navigating Stuckness A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,730 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More