A new (free) e-book in the making : Consider This.
It seems unreal, this last mad dash to the end of Emma's high school career. In just a few short weeks, she will be donning a cap and gown and walking across a stage that represents so much to her, to me, to us. I know every parent feels this strange combination of pride and fear and loss. I know.
As we have walked step by step toward June 14th, and later toward college, it has occurred to me that there are pieces of advice I'd like to give her to take with her. Not that I imagine she will read it now, but perhaps later, much as she will read Life is a Verb later, when she's my age perhaps, and know.
And so, since many of you have watched her grow up–she was only 12 years old when I started writing 37days, I wonder if you might help me.
What is your best advice to Emma–to any young person graduating from high school this June or leaving home? What would you say to her (them) if you could only have 350 words in which to impart the most important thing for them to hear? What do you wish you had heard at 18 that might have helped (if you could have heard it then)? As Emma is an artist and planning to study computer animation and design in college, any artists who have special words of wisdom will be welcomed, too!
Instructions: Pick one of these formats for your advice: Either write it as an essay of 350 words or less or as a Tweet of 140 characters or less or as a piece of art or a poem or a cartoon or an anything you'd like to send! – and submit it to patti@pattidigh.com with the subject line "ADVICE TO EMMA" (if you don't include that subject line, I will never see it!). Be sure to sign it, letting me know how to attribute it to you, including any link you'd like me to include.
Beginning on May 8th, I'll pick one a day to post for the last 37 days of her high school life. I'll also create a free e-book of the pieces submitted for everyone to download and give to their own graduate, child, partner, whomever–shortly after the countdown ends on June 14th when she springs free of high school.
What is your best advice for dear Emma as she leaves home and ventures into the world?
