Dear Nat, its-lola-bunny
Surprise! I was your secret santa. It was a huge debate over what I was going to make you for your gift, because I wanted to make it really really special. I finally put together this graphic, the first graphic I’ve ever made actually! I wanted to include all the things i thought were important to Lola and her character, and I hope this does her justice.
A part I wanted to explain to you is the very last line, where it says, “I’m a little lost as well.” This line may confuse you a bit, and you may not realize where it came from.
It was one of the first things Lola ever said. Back in February, the 24th, to be exact. On February 24th Steve Jobs was born, Thailand celebrates National Artist Day, the space shuttle Discovery launched for its last time, and you began your character journey with Lola. In said post, you said to Robin Hood, “I’d help you, but I’m a little lost as well.”
I think in this circus we’re all a little lost. Not just our characters, Merida, and Clopin, Tia, Penny, and Lock and Barrel. Us too. The real us, you know? I know that when Lola said that she was a little lost as well it didn’t really mean all that. But I think it’s important. I kind of think it’s what the circus is about.
You’ve come so far as a writer and a person over the past year. I mean, think back to February, you were nearly a year younger than now.
To summarize this cheesy, and sporatic post, I’d like to share with you one of my favorite quotes, in hope that if you are ever facing harder times, it may bring you a sense of hope and inspiration as it does so frequently for me.
“I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it’ll all gather together inside and it’ll be me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it’s finally me, where it’s in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day. I get hold of it so it’ll never run off. I’ll hold on to the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.” -Ray Bradbury
Love,
Maggie
(and Penny lane)
