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June 02, 2007 |
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Food For Thought
FOUND by Ruth
in Tampa, Florida
I found this book on the ground a few years back. Just the other day I found it again and, while reading it, I began to think that someone had written it to me until I got to the bottom and read 'Cookie'. It is filled with so much love that I wish someone had written it to me.
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to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
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What a great find..filled with a lot of love.
You know, I just want to say something to the guys at Found. I don't know you and I'll probably never meet you (I'm in the UK- why don't you come over here sometime?). I've been reading your site for the past three years and I've never bought anything from you and I never click on those ads and I nver see your books over here. But I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart (is that the deepest place I can thank you from?) that you continue to entertain me, shock me, make me remember what other people are doing in a ton of places around the world. From the simple things like that rabbit photo, to the heart breaking ones ("There Are Options") and everything between. I never know what's to come. But it truly moves me. I'm sure you hear it all the time, but I just wanted to share that with you.
Today was my Nanny's birthday, she's passed now. What a perfect find for me this day!
i used to have a puppy named cookie. i miss her.
The big question is – what was the book?? Might have been the poems of Patience Strong, or The Book of Mormon, or a cookery book – makes all the difference. Still, a very touching message.
Hear hear to Jesse – when are you guys coming to London? We can all have a party!
How sweet! Hope the original person left the book a la bookcrossing (www.bookcrossing.com) in hopes someone would find it and get something from it, and didn't lose it or just dump it. Though I suppose the results would be the same either way...
I'd love to know what the book is! I leave a message similar to this in "The River Why" (http://tinyurl.com/ynlfzk ) and leave that book places. (without bookcrossing - I don't want to get caught up in whether or not someone found it, etc.)
I don't sign it Cookie, though.
Cookie's writing is beautiful!
i wish i knew what the book contained also. x
Yes, I am quite curious as to what book it was as well. It could change the message completely: For example, if the book were the Bible, it would not be as interesting as if the book were The Zombie Survival Guide.
I don't know why, exactly, but all that strikes me in this note is the "Cookie". And oddly enough, the moment I read that "cookie" I was transported back to my days of youth, watching Sesame Street and cookie monster, and then (almost able to feel the firing of each thought and transmitter across synaptic gaps in my brain)I was reminded of a particular song. So this note reminds me of a "Sesame Street" Cookie monster song, which is as follows:
C is for cookie,
that's good enough for me,
C is for cookie,
that's good enough for me,
C is for cookie,
That's good enough for me! Oh, cookie cookie cookie starts with C!
The end. I know, I'm crazy.
It's my birthday today! jeez, what I would of done for a present as heartfelt as that.
i know an ab, well, sort of.
she makes me feel violent, which i hate because i can't control it
i wouldn't be surprised if you were her, ab.
though you seem more intelligent.
I'd like to think that the book was a copy of "Golden Nuggets".
Great collaboration(sp?) of poems and stories and advice.
That script is inhumanly perfect. Cookie could be a brain surgeon with hands that steady.
Personally, I'm quietly tittering over the (lame?) coincedence that they offered "food" for thought, and that their name is Cookie. Delicious!
I friggin hope it wasn't Chicken Soup for the Soul
Ditto to j in b.... I think that it should be a quotes book or some anthology of poetry. The script is too perfect. It creeps me out a little.
i absolutly thought this was written by someone i knew, untill i read the "cookie" and the place where it was found. il ove the script, it has personality.
violent:
I hope I'm not that person . . . I don't like to think I make people feel "violent", yeesh. I've never met anyone from San Diego, though. I reside in the good 'ol Midwest. My "ab" is the result of an ex-friend's nickname for me, the 'b' standing for 'banana', of course. Do you still feel violence? I hope not. 'peace dude'.
oh.. my ex-bf used to called me cookie..
My mother has the exact same handwriting- remember when they taught it in school? She went to a one room school house in Charleston, WV where one of her classmates was Conchita Farrell. Now THAT is food for thought.
I mean Conchata Ferrell.....
Ten bucks says the book is the bible.
Man, when did cookies start writing letters and buying books? I love cookies too but you don't see me buying gifts for them. Although, I guess my cookies show love for me by hangin' around my body long after they've been eaten. But they may be cheating on me with ice cream because I think they are making babies in the back of the bus. Hmm...maybe I should show my love for cookies by buying them gifts...but then I don't want to be accused of leaving them on the shelf. OH I'M TORN!!!
It looks like my Aunt's handwriting. Her nickname is Cookie. I don't think she knows anyone in Florida but her son-in-law is a truck driver. Small world.
It's fuuny, I have an Aunt Cookie, and her handwriting looks like that too.
Cookie has gorgeous handwriting!
I'm willing to bet that Cookie is the elderly, childless, retired school teacher aunt (or great aunt?) of the original recipient of this note.
I sure hope it wasn't a bible. What kind of person says "I hope you think of ME every time you read the bible..."?
This was written to me by my dear friend Cookie for my birthday a few years ago. We met when our husbands served together in the Navy and have been best friends ever since. This was my first time on this website. I typed in my name, and this is what appeared! I am overwhelmed. This book was lost in a military move.
Hey, Ruth, you must e-mail the 'Hey That's Me' corner of Found and tell them this story! That's brilliant. (Now everyone will want to know what the book was!)
Not sure how you do it but info@foundmagazine.com will get there.
How did it find its way to Florida??
Touching story, Ruth--but WHAT was the name of the book? You left that part out!!