
{"id":377,"date":"2005-01-05T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=377"},"modified":"2005-01-05T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T01:55:00","slug":"1895-1995-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/1895-1995-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"1895, 1995, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/010505a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/010505b.jpg',485,700)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/010505b_th.jpg\" class=alignleft  WIDTH=150 border=\"1\"\/><\/a> In 1995, in a classroom I was teaching in, I found this postcard late one night. It was in the tray of the chalk board in front of the class. It had actually been there a few days getting moved around. It first caught my eye only because it was a painting from my favorite classical painter William Bouguereau. &#8220;The Abduction of Psyche&#8221; from 1895. The painting was now a 100 years old. The classes had left awhile ago so it had obviously been left behind. I flipped it over to find a love note from a girl. There was no one in any of the classes that I knew of named either Josh or Naomi. So I&#8217;m not sure how it ever decided to land in my hands but I&#8217;ve kept it this whole time. I was cleaning out a closet and opened the box that it was in and read it again. I&#8217;m not sure how old she was when she wrote it, she could have been a teenager, she could have been in her thirties. All I know is she is 10 years older than she was and I hope she hasn&#8217;t changed.<\/p>\n<p>All together now&#8230; Awwwww&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a vision of us. What do you think of my dream come true? Isn&#8217;t it a little blue? You know what I mean, I hope. Here is that thing I wrote. Hope you enjoy the postcard. I&#8217;ve been saving it for someone really special for about a year now and I guess you came my way.<\/p>\n<p>Eternally, Naomi<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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