November 22, 2011
"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."

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Maurice Sendak 

I think of this story often (it is one of my favorites) as a reminder of two things

  1. No matter how famous you are, or how important you might become never lose the ability to be surprised and touched by the love of strangers.
  2. Remember the love you had for things as a child, one without embarrassment, reserve or complication. The kind of love that would make you eat something just so it could be part of you.  

(via jamesnord)

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