{"id":7552,"date":"2014-10-06T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2014-10-09T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:43:57","slug":"important-letter-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/important-letter-david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Letter to David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pippi as David Bowie and Artemis as Buddha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bowie philia seems to be my genes. I have had an artist crush on the guy since I was a young teen and so do all of my daughters. I admit, his Let’s Dance<\/strong><\/em> album is one of my favourites.<\/p>\n

In an odd twist, fiction became fact in my family. I wrote a novel and the protagonist is a teenage girl who is a huge Bowie fan\u2014knows all his songs, albums and movies by heart, his entire history, a walking Bowie encyclopedia. The Novel is titled Queen of the Godforsaken<\/strong><\/em> and will be released by Thistledown Press in 2015. As luck would have it, a decade after I wrote the first draft, my own teenage daughter, Mist, turned into the Bowie encyclopedia I wrote about. My youngest daughter, Pippi, is following closely in her sister’s Bowie footsteps.<\/p>\n

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Mist (age 14) as Bowie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently, Pippi has become a budding script writer\/actor\/director. She asked me if I’d mail a letter for her, to David. I read the letter that she and her cousin had written together and told her that I’d do my best.<\/p>\n

I looked up his fan mail address in New York and posted the letter. I hope it reaches dear David. I’ve never sent a fan letter before so I have no idea if they actually reach the artists that they’re intended for.<\/p>\n

But just incase the letter doesn’t arrive in New York as intended, this letter is for you David Bowie.*<\/p>\n

Letter to David Bowie:<\/h4>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

*Not to worry David, if you read this online letter first\u2014your hard copy is in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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